A launch test-procedure review was held February 2-3.
#ATLAS AGENA B FAILURE VERIFICATION#
The Prespacecraft Mate Verification of GLV-8 was run February 1. Subsystems Reverification Tests began the following day and lasted until January 31. After the vehicle was inspected and umbilicals connected, power was applied January 19. Gemini launch vehicle (GLV) 8 was erected at complex 19. GATV 5003 was to be the target vehicle for Gemini VIII. It was shipped to Eastern Test Range the same day, but bad weather delayed delivery until January 21. Air Force Space Systems Division formally accepted GATV 5003 on January 18, after the vehicle acceptance team inspection. Gemini Agena target vehicle (GATV) 5003 completed its final acceptance tests at Sunnyvale, after an elusive command system problem had made it necessary to rerun the final systems test (January 4). The spacecraft was then transferred to Merritt Island Launch Area for integrated (Plan X) test with the target vehicle, January 26-28, and extravehicular equipment compatibility test, January 29. Fuel cell installation, heater resistance checks, and pyrotechnics buildup lasted two weeks.
Booster subsystems tests continued until February 23. The exception was a new destruct unit which flew for the first time in Atlas 5302. Of the 20 engineering change proposal differences between Atlas 5301 (launched October 25) and Atlas 5302, all but one were proven in other Atlas flights before Atlas 5302 was launched. The effort resulted in procedural and design changes intended to improve vehicle reliability. Air Force Space Systems Division and General Dynamics/Convair had begun intensive efforts to ensure the vehicle's flight readiness immediately after the Agena failure on October 25, 1965. PART III (B) Flight Tests January 1966 through February 1967Ītlas 5302, target launch vehicle for Gemini VIII, was erected at complex 14.
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