Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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G~El0ENTIAL
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look like you were sitting in the middl11 of a fire
barrel .
Boy!
When those retros go off , the whol e
spacecraft ' s enveloped in flames
jus·; looks like
the whole place is burning all over bac:c there.
This flame comes all the way back over che spacecraft
and all the way up -­
Conrad
At SEP OAMS , electr ic and adapter, though, we didn 't
see much of anything.
Cooper
No.
I saw a flash at SEP ADAP.
Conrad
I
I saw a l ittle flash , but I thought maybe we d see a
lot more f lashing- type f l ame .
Actual l y, no big prob-
l em in that night retro, but I
111 tell you one t hing,
I
you re not ever going to do it out t he window.
Cooper
You ' re never going to see anything out the window in
a night retro.
You ' re just completely enveloped in
f lames.
Conrad
Those RCS ' s are firi ng away like mad and there ' s al l
kind& of light outside and everything, so night r etr o
is an instrument- type thing.
Cooper
It's purely instruments. If you don ' t have i nstru­
1
ments, you re just not going to shoot :i. t .
Conrad
But otherwise , I don ' t think t here was any di fference .
Cooper
No .
Conrad
We were completely in the dark f or a l)ng time .
We