Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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turned on the RCS Heaters on the second dtcy and left them
on through the entire £light. They sequenced and went on
and of£, I am sure, but we did not know about it. We never
saw the light, and we did not have to worry about it.
The temperatures kept right around 80° all the time.
No comments on thruster firing, worked fine.
We shut the
RCS system down initially around 35,000 feet, shut off the
motor valves and then the oscillation on the drogue built
up even greater than it was.
So we turned them back on
again, and I'm not sure if it is my imagination or not but
it seemed like this had some effect on damping the oscilla­
tions. It may have been just the position in the reentry,
though. I had the feeling that perhaps we had run out of
RCS fuel prior to drogue depl oy. I am not certain, but if
we di dn't then the RCS didn't have the authority, because
we were oscillating before drogue deploy. I didn't notice
any RCS fumes after impact.
Did you, Jim?
After impact? No.
I think that our system of turning the
Repress on and getting the..•
8.4 ECS
Why don't you comment on suit mobility?
This was a flight that actually did some
suit. We had the new light weight suit.
evaluation on the
Mobility is better