Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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yaw left and roll left. And the natural tendency of
the spacecraft to yaw left due to water boiler venting,
I guess, and perhaps ECS venting, was aggravated by this
added impulse of two blips when we shut down the ACME.
How about the selector controls and switches i n the
cockpit?
Lovell
No comments there.
Borman
I don't have any either. The attitude controller, I thought,
was fine.
No problems.
Maneuver controllers were fine.
Lovell
The right hand maneuver controller was a very nice operating
controller and it was very handy.
Very easy to operate.
Borman
As far as inflight malfunctions or irregularities, we lost
authority on thrusters 3 and 4.
We got some of our yaw
righ t capability back by turning off the circuit breaker for
Thruster 12 and then thrusting backwards with the maneuver
controller in order to give us yaw right. This wor~ed very
well and enabled us to check yaw right drift rates and
enabled us to make yaw right maneuvers. The only thing-­
you couldn't get very small control inputs with this mode.
Lovell
And you used a lot of gas.
Borman
And you used a lot of gas.
I was very happy when we finally