CC: Gemini XII, Houston. On the next revolution over Texas, I'11 pass an update for your Sep and it will be for the aft-firing thrusters. a good device to illumi_te the tether with at night. It works out very nicely. this. it sort of looks like you are oscillating in sort of a cone, I guess, attitudes. down the Spacecraft. Jeopardize a good thing. that wedge ! to go ... LOS Antigua; see you over Ascension. yet ? ASCENSION Over. out in the daylight, we would like to get a normal fuel cell purge. Purge Section 2 then Section 1; hydrogen normal and oxygen a normal purge - 2minutes. Over. cells per purge, 2 then 1. Is that right? in daylight. And if you are satisfied, you can watch and see what happens to your rate and so forth when you purge. Ascension. See you at Tananartve 50:08. TANANARIVE Over. computer off. Over. around in the cockpit at all? We'd like to know if your movements in the cockpit tend to upset the combination at all. you know at a light time. Well, we did make a purge out there to see what that'11 do .... We'11 find out. daylight and after the fuel cell purge, if you would make some deliberate movements in the cock- pit to observe, we'd appreciate that for your con_nents. doing things. We turned the Agena control system off. Then we would get hold of the antenna where the ... ran into a slack a little bit. But seems to be working. relation to the horizon now? Are you still pointed down pretty good? we've got the lights on in the cockpit. We'11 have to find out where ... for telemetry on this? using it, so that you'11 save electrical power. to the computer, and we wanted leave it on to re- cord ... the computer off. purge first? COASTAL SENTRY QUEBEC fuel cell purge. standing by. possible, I could make some Hasselblad pictures during the stand-up EVA run. you terminate the tether exercise. That will give you time to Platform Aline. figure out a way of making the burn with the con- trols ... HAWAII would like to go clean of the Agena prior to darkness, in the daylight - and also might set up for a burn. We're still discussing how to make this burn. We're really not too sure how much fuel we are going to have to make this burn. light and get off - rather then get off the tether in daylight? light, of course. 25 minutes later in daylight. the burn also in daylight. control we have and how long and howmuch it takes to Aline the Platform. gradient, we can get off the tether anytime you want us to. We'11 have something for you shortly. gradient exercise through the rest of this day pass, nighttime, and then separate upcoming sun- rise. CALIFORNIA you're ready to copy. 2107; RET RB, 2635. The bank angles are roll left 80, roll right 100; the weather is good. The bank angles and the weather are good in all the following areas. There is a Separation Maneuver required for 34-3A; no Separation Maneuvers for the rest of them. Area 35-3 Bravo: GET RC, 54:56:01; RET 40OK, 21 plus 05; RET RB, 26 plus 53. Area 36-3A: GET RC, 56:32:01; RET 40OK, 20 plus 35. RET RB, 25 plus 58. Area 37 Charlie, Charlie: GET RC, 58:07:05; RET 40OK, 19 plus 55; RET RB, 25 plus 04. Area 38 Alpha Charlie: 59:01:42; RET 40OK, 20 plus 54; RET RB, 26 plus 40. Area 39 Alpha Charlie: GET RC, 60:38:01; RET 40OK, 21 plus 17; RET RB, 27 plus 05. Area 40-2 Alpha: GET RC, 62:11:52; RET 40OK, 21 plus 20; RET RB, 26 plus 42. Do you copy? GET RC and RET blanket. plus 07; RET RB, 26 plus 35. but I have it all. Thank you. Are you ready to copy? Delta-V, 60 - 6.0, excuse me - 6 feet per second; burn time, 8 seconds; yaw O, pitch O; Address 25, 00060; Address 26, Address 27, all zeros; thrusters aft; Maneuver Posigrade. GUAYMAS Maneuver; GET of burn, 52:14:27; Delta-V, 6.0; duration, 8 seconds; yaw O, pitch O; Address 259 - say again, Address 25, 00060; Address 26, Address 27, zeros; say again after that. grade. problem, and we are going to see how well you do on your burn and how you do on getting your Plat- form Alinement and everything. We'11 talk to you after that about the rest of it. to turn your X-ray on, Beta WITH MAG and leave it on through the sleep period, please. period. TEXAS to power you down and get you fed and to bed. doubt that ... total amplitude seems to be - well, the maximum is a little bit ... the total angle ... vertical ... but they were coming within about 30 degrees to the horizontal. minus 60 degrees from the vertical. for your Crew Status Report. You can pass it whenever you're over a station and you're ready to give it. No rush. going to run approximately 53 hours to 61 hours. you turn your encoder off? CONFIDENTIAl the plan and see if we can't put S-51 in for tomorrow morning. And it also looks like you're separating from the Agena for the last time. the jettison tomorrow. it. That's the main thing. null the residuals, too? your last stateside pass and we'11 see you in the morning. TANANARIVE Orer. How are you? you get off the tether, we would like you t o call a normal fuel cell purge while you're Alining the Platform and prior to the Sep Maneuver. Also, make sure you get the encoder off. As soon as you get off it, we want to set up the Agena. Then you can go ahead and eat and sleep, which will be 53 to 61 hours elapsed. And tomorrow morning we're going to schedule S-51 at 62:45, and your second pass by it will be 64:20. We're going to try and schedule an EVA at 65 hours, so do you think you have enough time there? You know, on the second pass, all you have to do is snap a couple of pictures. Over. we'11 be asking how critical the time is on this Sep burn there, Houston. Houston, we'11 take our time, and if it's not critical and merely a ... separation, then you don't mind if we burn a little bit later ... to get off, but we could move it a little bit later, I believe. going to take, and I just wanted to know whether it would be critical or ... and make it. thruster so we can watch the Agena going away? want and if you don't burn it on time - if you will give us the ex_ct time of the burn, that's fine. Whenever you can burn it, burn it. schedule of D-10, T-2, S-ii and S-29, depending on how good your control capability is after you give us a little evaluation there after your Sep burn. the middle of the night for any reason and you can think of it, a 30-second 02 purge will help your fuel cells during the nighttime there. If you aren't awake, no problem; if you are, why give it a 30-second 02 purge. purged them just a little bit ago. Do you want them to be a full 2-minute purge here? purge on it right after you get off the Agena, while you're Alining the Platform. these Delta-P lights for awhile. If the only thing you are getting on the circuit breaker is the fact that the Delta-P lights are on, we'd like to turn them off. can see and monitor the Delta-P lights on the telemetry is if you leave them on. So if you could cover them with something, we'd appreciate it if you would leave the circuit breaker on. wise, with the forward firing thruster it'11 be a 10-second burn versus an 8-second burn. siderably, so that's why we want to get another long purge on them. Agena yet? LOS. correct? COMMAND. COMMAND when we did it. Of course, ours was working real good. COASTAL SENTRY QUEBEC passing the Agena. in sight and we want to get away from him. We're Just trying to Aline the Platform here. We are having a hard time finding them. second separation before we get something. HAWAII burn. Alining was okay. Also RATE COMMAND was used during the tether exercise and did hold it. We made a burn; we had to correct the attitude with maneuver thruster during the burn. We burned in Orb Rate Plat mode. go into a yaw. the purge. check, and if you have less then five frames left in the film that you used to photograph the eclipse, you can go ahead and stow it and use the other f_lm pack for tomorrow. we'd like for you to use as much water as reasonable, drinking during your meal preparation. out those fuel cells as much as possible. us to have any going. feel about the control system in regard to the re- maining experiments which are S-51, T-2, and T-lO. fairly decently. Big burns any more than about six and seven, we're going to have to use the maneuver controller to stop it. Pitch enough to get certain angles or attitudes so - not too sure, I think we could probably do it in RATE COMMAND and try to get it - be a little expensive on gas. Status Report, and we'11 stand by over RKV and Tar_narive for that. rendezvous? and it can be done. ROSE KNOT VICTOR