Spacelog Gemini 3

Well, get it in!

96.

96?

I'm in Catch-Up mode.

Okay.

Says to put in 2590960.

Okay.

You have about 2 minutes.

Hawaii CAP COM, Molly Brown.

2—5—9—0—9—6—0

Okay, but — that's what we're going to shoot for.

Okay. At the start of this we'll be about 52 percent.

Hawaii, Molly Brown.

Man! I mean we start to burn just as we come over there.

Let's go ahead and hit the Catch-Up thing and see what it says.

Nothing.

Well, let's do it — put it back in. Okay. Now try it.

Okay. Now.

There she goes. 6—5—4 — how did it get in there? My attitudes are not 0, 0, 180.

That's how.

96.

Okay.

…

Yes, sir!

The IVI's keep counting up, though.

Yes.

It does keep changing, doesn't it?

Hello, Molly Brown. Hawaii CAP COM.

Hawaii, Molly Brown is all ready for burn.

Roger. Give us a hack on your event timer.

Okay, it'll be 12:55 on my mark.

MARK.

Right, we are right on.

Okay. On my IVI's, I have 97 ft/sec forward and the others are zips.

Roger, and give us a mark for the start of burn.

Roger. We've got about 25 seconds to go.

Roger.

That's perfect out-the-window alinement.

Yes.

10 seconds.

We have 50 percent propellant quantity indicated. Getting ready to fire —

MARK! End of burn.

Right. Mark end of burn. Good show.

We timed that a minute and 48 seconds.

Give us your IVI readings.

IVI's: Fore-Aft 0, Left was 1, Up was 2.

That was the end of burn.

Yes.

Okay, and how did your attitudes look?

Attitudes were right on, plus or minus 2 or 3°.

Okay, they look good on the ground.

Roger.

Now we can go to REENTRY. Right?

Yes.

Okay, I've got 9:29 on the T_R.

Okay, MARK!

Oh! Give me another.

I'll give you one at 19. Okay?

Okay.

MARK!

Okay, and the propellant source pressure is 1500.

We had indicated 22 percent when we got done, Neil.

20 percent. Rog?

About 22.

Okay.

Source pressure is 1500, source temperature 60-50, I mean. And the RCS-both rings on. Antenna okay. On REENTRY. Heaters off. Quantity Read Switch off.

Let's see, did we get all of this?

OAMS power to ATTITUDE, controller stow, attitude PULSE, computer to REENTRY.

Okay.

Now we're lined up good.

Okay, and the retro load is initialized now, because I called addresses 10 and 11 out of the computer.

Now, don't go out of Reentry mode.

Okay, but I don't think it would make any difference, as long as we go back. Okay — platform — rate — computer to REENTRY — RATE COMMAND — roll gyro off.

Yes.

Platform is ORBITAL RATE — No.

No.

Retro power—ARM.

Not now. At T_R-5, you mean?

Well, this is the 5-minute checklist.

Okay, well, we'll just — 7:20 now.

I haven't heard any of those squib isolation pyros fire yet. Have you?

Yes, I heard the ones on the pad fire.

Did you? I don't remember, I guess.

I was listening for all that jazz.