Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

Text

This text came with the file. It may have mistakes. When the text and the image disagree, the image is right.

183
the OAMS squib just to see if you can hear it." At this
stage of the game we were depending upon the OAMS fuel for
realignL"lg the platform.
I thought that by then we were in
a stage of the mission that we were operation&l rather than
interested in blowing something to see if we cou.1.d hear it.
Lovell
Especially for a night alignment.
Borman
Right.
And I agree with you a thousand times it would not
make any difference, but on the thousand and first time, it
might have made a difference if we lost our OAMS, and I
could not see any reason to do itJ so we did not do it.
Another item, that I did not like, came up as far as flight
plan changes go.
The request that was put in as part of the
flight plan, and never was in the flight plan. That was to
get a blood pressure over Guaymas after retrofire. As it
turns out, we tried to do this , but we could not find the
horizon and so we did not do it.
I woul d strongly, as a
matter of fact, I would not even consider it. After retro­
fire, as far as I am concerned, the blood pressures, and
all the other non-operational equipment can go by the way­
side.
Lovell
Right.
Borman
Right then the important thing is to get on the ground.
Lovell
Yeah, actually the retrofire time , the triple orbits before