Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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or 150 pai at launch.
I called up Houston and said I
would like to leave the
gauge in the FC02 position
rather than the ECS o2 positlon. Chris said, "No, unless
we really felt strongly about it, they would rather have it
in the ECS o position". So we left it there and after we
2
were inserted and we were still with the booster, they
came in with a recommendation that we open the cross feed.
When we did, this immediately raised the pressure to 250
psi. The thing that was bad was that we had over 100%
o:xygen and we were down to about 100 lbs. on the FC02•
We agreed that we would fly at least 50 lbs. above the do.me,
So, I really didn't see the need for opening that valve
although it didn't cause a:n:y problems.
Lovell
They wanted to pump up and make sure.
Borman
It worked fine and we got right back up to 250 lbs.
Lovell
That is one syste.m that did work fine.
Borman
The first 7 hours was pretty no.minal. All throughout the
flight plan we have notes that the Delta Plight went out
and came back on and so on.
Bor:man
At 16,40 we sighted a satellite .much lower and
on a slightly higher inclination path than we were. It
passed underneath us. It was so fe:r awa::, it looked like
a sighting from the earth. It was just a refiection. We
were very religious about the exercise periods. We s-ot