Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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moved it up there anyhow, because they weren't ....
Cooper
No , the reason they moved it up there was because
they didn ' t have strong enough propulsion on those
squibs and spring combinations or whatever they use.
We never did get a reading on that, but whatever
the total propulsive expulsion system wasn't kick­
ing, the scanner fairing wide enough but what they
would come back into the booster. But didn't you
have the distinct impression that the nose fairing
broke into jillions of pieces when it blast.
Conrad
I certainly, I certainly, yes .
That ' s why wh~n
I say askew, I mean something didn't look right.
I can't put my finger on it, but -­
Cooper
It came off in many pieces anyway.
There were many,
many pieces and the whole area was just filled with
debris.
Conrad
Yes, and then, I 'm not sure that that's when we got
all that gl op on our windshiel d, the spots ...
Cooper
Well, I noted exactly at that time immediately
after the fairing went, I noted about 5 or 6, I
saw them hit , 5 or 6 gray splots, just small ones ,
very small little gray-type splots and I was
distinctly looking for that and watching for it and