Spacelog Gemini 3

Roger, RKV. The platform alines all right when I'm in SEF and, evidently, when I go to ORBIT RATE it drive the ball off in roll.

Roger. Understand. Stand by one.

The Gage Correlation Report is complete.

The Gage Correlation Report is complete.

Time is 1821. Can I read these into the recorder, Gus, or will it get to you?

Read it into the recorder.

Okay.

Let's see. It's pitching down on Orbit Rate. Horizon Scan now. Let's see if it stops it. Pitched down to 10°.

Molly Brown, RKV CAP COM.

Go ahead.

If you are drifting in Orbit Rate, suggest you select a mode of your own for your tracking task coming up on the coast.

Roger.

Thanks a bunch. Okay, I'll read these quantities off. The GMT was 1716 when we started. Propellant quantity was 60. Cabin temperature — 92. Suit temperature — 58. Cabin pressure — 5.6. Suit CO₂ — 3/4 millimeter. Secondary left O₂ bottle — 5100. Secondary O₂ bottle right was 5050. ECS O₂ quantity — 62 percent. Pressure — 840. Source temperature — 55. Source pressure — 2000. Fuel temp — 68.

You are supposed to take pictures of this.

I know it, I know it — 295. RCS A temperature — 87. RCS A pressure — 3000. RCS B temperature — 82. RCS B pressure — 2650. Main ammeter — 19. No. 2 — 19.5. 1A —4.5. 1B — 4.5. 1C — 4. 2A — 5. 2B — 4 3/4. 2C — 4 3/4. DC volts 23.5. S1 — 29. S2 — 29. C — 27. 1A — 24. 1B — 24. 1C — 24. Greenwich Mean Time is 1721. Completed.

Molly Brown, RKV. You are looking good here on the ground. If you have any further comments we are standing by.

Negative.

Roger. Guaymas will be next.

I don't see a good target anyplace.

Man, just pitch over and I'll take a picture.

Can you pitch it down and toward the States, Gus?

Molly Brown, Guaymas CAP COM.

Guaymas, Molly Brown.

Your Three-Alpha times are nominal.

Roger … and nominal.

Can you come across a ground tracking looking down like that, Gus?

Sideways?

Yes, sideways, and pitch down 90. Will this hurt alinement? — because I can see some targets up north.

You mean roll to the right?

We are standing by for your coolant pump checks.

No. Roll left.

Roll left, and pitch down.

I don't see a good target anyplace.

What did you say, Guaymas?

We are standing by for your report on your Coolant Pump Checks.

Roger.

I don't see anything that makes a decent target at all.

Well, I can't — can you pitch down so I can see something?

Oh, you can't see anything. If I pitched straight over you could have. See?

Yes.

Here, there is a target down there.

Where?

You've got to pitch the nose down. Right by the nose.

That green spot?

No, down — like straight down.