Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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Cooper
Conrad
FCSD REP
they were not there before they were t'nere and I
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saw them when they hit.
They hit duri:'.l.g all this
debris flying around period.
I think that you can sti11 f i nd them o:'.l. the
windshields .
They didn ' t burn off during reentry.
But they' re not bad and there are just a few little
scattered ones and I think it might be interesting
t o compare how many you get there versus and how
many you get when you jettison them in orbit. It
may wel l be that jettisoning in orbit would be pre­
ferabl e , but I didn ' t f i nd anything objectionable
t o jettisoning where they went, they wenm fine.
It did add a lot of debris and I agree with Pete
there was a big torn something or other out there
which may just be a fiberglass thing that is kind
of . .. ,.
Yes , I want to get down and look at the R and R and
and I can tell you what it was , describe it a lot
better.
We' ll probably have some pictures of it
too in the camera somewhere.
I know it 'll show
up in some film.
How l ong was this visible? You say there was a big
bunch of stuff out there.
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