Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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IR on and the power on the exmitter on and the recorder
off and I went through these by the numbers.
Com­
puter, we went to Catch-Up . We had the hundred feet
in the window.
We were really getting ready to
put the REP out and right then and there was when we came
over the hill and we were beginning to get to the dark
side you know, and the sun was getting low and that' s
when the scanner started going out,
Cooper
That's when the scanner started dropping out.
Conrad
And we started getting the scanner light and then now,
you got to visualize there ' s part of the problem. We're
coming into this "Fuzzy Zone"-horizon and that is the
best way to describe it.
Cooper
Yeah, you can't see anything.
Conrad
And the spacecraft looks like you're pitched up
tremen­
dously when you're zero- zero- zero to begin with and we
both had the impression that the scanner was pitching
us up. Well, that may not have been true. It just
may have been that that's the way the sky got to looking
as we approached the dark side zero- zero- zero.
Cooper
Actually, you have a transition point there where you
cannot see the horizon and it doesn' t look like either
sky or earth or anything. It's a complete blank,