Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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we switched to DIRECT and in DIRECT we did not e;et. a.ny
ignition at all as far as I could tell .
In t he OAHS PULSE
yaw righ c, we were getting slight little pops . It seemed
we had about { control authority that we had before we
experience~ the probl em.
We went to DIRECT, to see what
effect
DIREC11 ha<l on it and we got some thrust, but i t was
a.
'1•hishing.
We weren't getting any sound of the
thrusters. It was a whishing sound.
T think we were only
getting an impulse either from the oxi<lizer or the fuel
escaping.
Lovell
We couJd hear a cJicking of the solenoids or the operation
of the valves, whatever they were back there .
They were
working all r ight, but we were not eetting any resuJtant
thrust.
Borman
Right.
Systems Monitoring:
Source pressure was fine .
Went right down the predicted sche<lule.
Lovell
As a mRtter of fact, the source pressure dropped, just a r
pre<licted, when we ran out of initial 0.Al18 fuel before we
went to the reserve tank.
Tt came back in at;air. when we
actuated the squib.
Ilorman
?To , that wasn't the source pressure, that was the regul ated
pressure.
Lovell
I mean the regulated pressure, I'm sorry.
Borman
The source temperature worked fine throughout the flight.