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Over the ocean Over the blue Here's Gemini 5 singing...
...47th revolution, he scored a space first-the visual sighting of a missile launching. "I see it, I see it," cried Conrad, as the 60-ft. Minuteman burst through the clouds over Vandenberg A.F.B. The Air Force had timed the lift-off to test whether Gemini 5 could locate and photograph such an operation. Several revolutions later, the astronauts spotted a second Minuteman launch from Vandenberg...
...eight tiny 25-lb. thrusters jammed. Forced to rely more heavily on the other thrusters, Cooper used up considerable fuel, leaving only 17 Ibs. for the rest of the trip. Ground control suggested that Cooper might indulge in "a couple of rolls and a loop" to celebrate when Gemini 5 cracked the time-in-space record held by Russia's Vostok 5. Cooper said he could not spare the fuel-and besides, "That's all we have been doing all day is rolling and rolling...
...rest of Gemini 5's flight was far from smooth. Because of the loss of thruster fuel, Kraft ordered the astronauts to limit their use of the jets and go into a drifting, tumbling flight. They had to scrub some of the remaining photographic experiments that required them to use the thrusters to get into a picture-taking position. Ground control was also worrying about the fuel-cell system again. The process of generating electricity by mixing hydrogen with oxygen was producing much too much of that inevitable byproduct: water. Ground control feared that the spacecraft was running...
...make sure that as little water as possible was created, Kraft ordered the astronauts to power down to 15 amperes from a peak of 44 amperes. On the sixth day, Kraft said that he might have to bring down Gemini 5 on its 107th orbit, one day short of its planned reentry...