Spacelog Gemini 3

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.

Arm auto-retro.

Auto-retro armed. Squibs armed.

Roger, Molly Brown.

16 seconds, 15 seconds.

Okay.

10—9—8—7—6—5—4—3—2—1—Retrofire.

Auto-retro.

Manual retro.

Rocket 3.

Rocket 2.

Three of them.

Rocket 4.

Molly Brown, do you confirm all rockets firing normally?

All rockets fired normally and attitudes were right in the center.

Roger. Pass your IVI readouts on to Guaymas. RKV out.

Roger.

Molly Brown, Guaymas CAP COM. Do you copy?

Roger, Guaymas. The IVI's readings were 331 Aft, 105 Right, and 4 Up. Right in the center. An automatic superfine retrofire down the line.

Roger. I copy. 331 Aft, Right 105, Down 04.

Roger, and retropack has jettisoned.

Roger.

Molly Brown, Guaymas CAP COM.

Go.

I'm prepared to give you a T_R + 3 minute time hack if you need it?

That would be good.

Okay, and I have some event times for reentry: 400K feet 19 10 29 — stand by, Molly Brown.

Molly ?Brown, correct that 400K feet. That's 19 01 29.

Roger.

Molly Brown, I'll give you a time hack in approximately 30 seconds.

Molly Brown, Guaymas. Stand by for a T_R + 3 minute time hack.

5—4—3—2—1 -

MARK!

Do you copy?

Roger. We got it.

Molly Brown, stand by for Texas.

Roger.

Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM.

Molly Brown here, go ahead.

Roger. I'm getting your bank angle times momentarily. Your start of Communications Experiment is 19 05 14.

Roger. I have steering on the computer.

I didn't read you on that.

I'm getting initial bank angle commands from the computer.

Okay.

Molly Brown, I have your backup times on the bank angles and time to reverse bank angle.

Go ahead.

Bank left 45°. Bank right 55°. Time to reverse bank angle 19 08 17.

Give me an elapsed time after retro.

Stand by one.