Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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Conrad
Cooper
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Cooper
Conrad
Cooper
turn that darn thing off and leave the DCS circuit
breaker off.
Okay, the next thing before retrofire .
I had one note here, just a second, at 7--Day 7,
22 hours, and 30 minutes.
We were on that real
black night side way down there somewhere on the
South American area.
Remember we saw those tre­
mendous series of thunderstorms .
Just fantastic,
you could-­
The brightest lightning I ' ve ever seen anywhere .
It lit up the inside of the spacecraft .
- - see hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of miles
almost as far as you could see in any direction
out the windows you could see lightning just
lighting up-just blossoming everywhere .
There
were hundreds of miles of thunderstorms of which
you could probably see at one time-you could
probably see 20 or 25 thunderstorms light up
at the same time .
And I've got somewhere on the 16mm film.
I opened
the stops up, and I took pictures of the lightning.
I don't know whet her it came out.
They would just light the whole spacecraft up.