Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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know whether this was programmed, or whether we just burned
too long. Other tb&n that the .flight plan went very well.
13.5 Systems
Borman
One of the items tha.t I objected to a littl e bit in the
flight, and it was the natural tendency with people on the
g:roundJ was the tendency, when we had a. littl e systems mal­
f'unction, to explore it to the greatest depths without re­
gard to the r est of the mission. For instance, when we had
the failed thrusters and we were ve-ry, very low on i'u.el,
they wanted me to put & 3 second direct burst th:rough the
tb:rustersJ so they could get TM on what was happening.
Well, this is fine, except when you do this, you are intro­
ducing the problem of the thrusters sticking, and losing all
your i'u.el there.
Or at least you are !!quirting out 3 sec­
onds of valuable .fuel, which is a heck of & big chu.nlc in
DIRECT• .And if.you were to induce ignition or even with
three seconds of just venting fuel through the thruster you
pick up a great ra.te, and then you have to ston so you
would use a tremendous amount of fuel this~-
I wills~
when I refused to do it, though, they acceded, so it was
all right. .Another thing I didn I t like, wa.s this idea of
blowing the OAMS squib. Remember?
"This isn I t in the
flight pla.n"-"if you feel like doing i t, I want you to blow