Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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Conrad
Cooper
Conrad
draw up on a piece of paper what the window, what the
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horizon should look like through the window whic~
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requested several times and never got -- to show ~~~) guy
what these various things should look like out the
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window;'---...We spent the whole darn eight days trying to
~rt=--'l;fl:e-s-0--~~~43 ~ould look like
and I'm not sure we were very clear on it to the day
we re- entered,
Yeah.
Now that's ridiculous!
And it ' s becau:3e of this odd
angle that you sit off in there. It completely fouls
up everytning, as to getting these various angles:
inverted and right side up and 90 degrees angles and
all this .
/1think we ought t;=-I ' ll tell you i;~ d recommen­
dation for the guys who are going to
do this on GT- 7 with that Hasselblad can take a pound
or two of fuel and sit up there and pl:.otograph
the camera back inside the spacecraft
get
the window perspective in this thing.
zero- zero- zero, bank right 90, bank lnft 90, at ifferent
nose pitches above the horizon,
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