Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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shut down 1 we put it in a different control mode and it
still fired t he same t wo thrusters.
Every time you turn off ACME bias power it would go"boop, "
11boop~ just like that. Every time we were without attitude
control for extended periods we ended up with a left yaw
and a left roll.
Finally a.t 191>48 we got both crewmen suitless. That was
the best decision in the whole flight. The perfor:m.e.nce of
the Cryo bottles was fantastic.
Lovell
That was one thing we were worried about. The eyd.rogen
bottle I thought was never going to last. Forty per cent
of the eyd.rogen bottle was still left at the end of 14 days.
One thing I wanted to try was to blow the squib. Remember
they said t1Did you blow the squi b?" I forgot about it. Just
prior to retro, I wanted to go over there and blow that squib
that opened up into a vacuum.
:Borman
It would have taken several hours for it to do a:n:y good.
Lovell
Yes, I know, I
just thought :maybe we could hear it or
so.mething.
:Borman
One thing that cropped up more and more as the mission
progressed, it seemed to get worse as it went along was the
fa.ct that things were cm celled because of weather.
We
picked up large areas of clouds over the U. S •·and over s.