Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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fli ght.
Borman
We were flying with bus ties and tu.el cells and no squib
batteries.
Lovell
To conserve the squib batteries for the r etrofire period.
Borman
Right.
Lovell
Because of that configuration, and because of the fact that
we lost two stacks, we had to modify our power up procedure.
Borman
Right.
Incidentally because of the f a.ct that we bad two
degraded thrusters, 3 and 4, we didn't use the~
mode at all for this alisnment. We aliened it all manually.
The thrusters were degraded, but there was still enough in
them to allow you to get i'ine maneuvers, fine control. I
used less control by turning off the circuit breaker for
thruster No . 12 and used 11, giving back t hrust and this
would give you right yaw•
.5.2 TR-26 events
Borman
At T- 26 the event timer was set, we didn't read anybody
because of our orbit , and we weren't able to start our
event timer counting down until T-20.
Lovell
T-20
Bor.ma.n
Read ou.t fro.m Carna.rvon.