John Company

Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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Lovell
Yes , but we did not do it then,did we?
Did not we wait
until we powered down and then waited two hours?
:Borman
That is right.
This is one of the things th&t they
had in the f light plan that we asked them to change
because
Lovell
Yes, we did not purge the f'uel cells then.
:Borman
Originally, this came right after power down e.nd all
of the f'uel cell people recommended that you purge
before power down, or wait until two hours after power
down.
So we did not do it at this t i me in the flight.
This was changed.
D-4, D-7 star measurements.
There
was no probl em.
The eta.rs were well selected, and we
were right on them.
Right Jim? Jim copied down, on
the procedures book, a check where we got the maximum
return on the needle.
Lovell
D-4, D-7 was a well organized experiment as far as
:Brentnall keeping us hopping about what to do .
I will
have to admit th.at .