Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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Conrad
FCSD rep.
Cooper
Cooper
Conrad
Over the period of time, they both got
a certain amount of little frosty scum
on the outside of them and when we fired
the scanner covers there were about foUT
or five little gray flecks of etuff and
debris just flew everywhere right in that
period of time and four or five· little
gray flecks came on the window.
Heck, that's before launch isn't it?
Oh, I didn' t know that.
Did it ever clear up?
No . I think it was just unforg:i.veable.
I think if they can I t do bette1· on windows
than that they ought to just qt.it trying.
I could see maybe having some El.lllount of
debris-and then when you use the thruster s
the debris would all show up again.
We
were on--here we are up here--t his med
data. Day 4, 16 hours and that data ­
did.
16 hours 28 minutes - D-4, D- 7, D-6, 423b.
Yeah that was the second missi:.e - which
we didn I t get any track on -- ue saw ­
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