Spacelog Gemini 3

You still look real good from the ground here.

Roger.

Okay. Replaced the tape recorder cartridge.

Molly Brown, CSQ CAP COM.

Go ahead CSQ.

Would you give us a propellant quantity readout before and after the burn?

Before the burn it was 66 percent, and now it reads 61 percent.

Molly Brown, say again.

66 percent before, 61 percent after.

Roger.

I'm not real sure of that before burn.

At 1645 GMT, changed the tape from No. 28 to No. 10. Okay.

That looks like it's in the ball park.

This thing isn't alined, is it?

I think you're right.

Give it one more chance.

Let's see — 2:22 elapsed. Carnarvon comes up in about a minute.

Molly Brown, Molly Brown, Carnarvon CAP COM. How do you read?

Carnarvon, this is Molly Brown. Read you loud and clear.

Very good, Gus; we'd like to get a blood pressure on the co-pilot, please, and could I have your status?

Okay — blood pressure's coming and our status is green.

Very good. We don't have any communications with the Cape at this time, but they have requested for me to run down your flight control problem a little bit. The first thing I'd like to know is what kind of rates are you getting if you just let it yaw?

They are very slow, Pete. Probably on the order of a quarter of a degree per second.

Okay and you are in a horizon scan mode, is that correct?

At the present time I'm in Pulse and alining the platform.

Okay. You're in pulse alining the platform. Are your ACME logic yaw rate gryos and attitude drivers and all that stuff still primary?

Affirmative.

Okay, strike all that other stuff. It sounds to me like you've got a mechanical problem in the valve. Is that what you figured?

Roger, it must be very, very slight. We can't see the pressure go down.

Okay, and you have turned off 3, 4, 7 and 8 yaw circuit breakers and put them on again, and that didn't have any effect?

Yes, we've gone through everything, Pete.

Okay, and no cross-coupling.

Negative.

Okay. That should keep them happy back there. We are not going to send you a load. Your T_R is good. I don't have your clock counting down with mine. I guess you have a different one in. We got your blood pressure and your clocks are on as far as SET goes.

That's — Pete.

Roger.

And I have a question for John. I would like to know how his waste evaluation is doing.

In process. Tell him.

In process.

In process. Roger. Roger.

You have a GO down here from everybody, and do you have suit temps for me, please?

Yes, suit temp is running 58°, Pete. We are okay.

Righto.

2:26. Rate gyros primary. Roll jets yaw.

Molly Brown, Carnarvon.

Go.

Would you turn your real-time telemetry off after LOS from Carnarvon, please?

Roger, real-time off after Carnarvon.

Yes. We didn't get a T_X up to you.

Roger.

You're going to make these Horizon Scan Checks after a little bit?

Yes. You do it, because I'm busy here.

Molly Brown, this is Carnarvon. How do you read?

Still read you loud and clear.

Okay, you'll probably go over the hill, Gus. You look good here on the ground. We'll see you on your next go.

Roger, thank you, Pete.

Be sure I don't throw any switches over there while I'm moving around.

Want this bag for anything?

Yes, I put the paper towels back in it.

Okay, I can thrust now?

Wait till I get my suit zipped up.

….

Better get that sight out for me.

Huh?

Should get that sight out before long, too.

Okay.

I can't get the auxiliary light off there.

It's really black out there.

Yep.

I've got a scanner ignore light. Shoot, that ball must be way off.

Okay.