Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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suit fans, snorkel valve open, and the vent valve open.
We a]so opened the repress valve. Electrical: We per­
formed a simple electrical check.
We turned off 3 and 4J
l eft 1 anrl 2 on, and watched for the variation in voltage
on the main buses. The bus that is fed by land 2 bat­
teries varied with wave action.
Lovell
That is right. But 3 and 4 dirl not move from zero.
Borman
And then you turned off squib batteries land 2 also didn't
you?
Lovell
I left squib battery 3 on.
Borman
Squib battery 3 was the only one that was on.
Lovell
Control:
We turned off the platform, the computer,
the circuit hreakers to the thrusters, and the RCS
thrusters.
Borman
He l eft the comput er in PRELAUNCH for 48 seconds or more,
before we turned it off. Aeromedical, no comment.
Except
blood pressure being a nuisance, anrl perhaps even a
hindrance when we were trying to go around the cockpit
with the switches and you had to ho 1d one arm stil1.
7.5 Spacecraft Status
Boman
RCS fumes:
When you open the snorkel at around 26,000
feet you get a good load of them.
Lovell
I am not sure what kind of fumes they were.
They were not
familiar to me.
I have smelled the results of fuel in the