Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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big enough in their overall look at
things to give you a clue as to what ­
I ' ll show you this - This is the kind of
thing that you just can•t have-that was
065-now what you need to help you find
an island is some clue as to Khere it
is located in the world- well, t hat ' s
what we had-­
Yeah, there was the island-­
Now it turns out that right up about here
there' s another island--laught er--and
man we took all kinds of -- sE!e fortunately
it was far enough away - you •• look 15
seconds up there is 15 x 8 is 120 miles-
and 120 miles is a lot of dist ance but
you are covering that in 15 snconds - well
fortunately this was about 15 or 20
seconds - we·were pitched down and we
were at least at the 90 and Wt:! got the
second island a little bit pa::Jt the nadir,
because we already had been t :cack.ing t his
first island see and thlm here we came
drifting along feeling how great we were