Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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That 1s impossible.
That thing wasn't that far
away.
It hung right in there.
I think that's the whole things .
But 1 111 tell you there were two differnnt night
sides we went into. Several- ­
Two different night sides- -well , I reaU y-- i t
wouldn 1 t have surprised me if it had hit us.
Me either. It seemed to me like it was a lot closer.
That's what made me think that well, th? platform
was aligned and I don't know what exactly happened.
I did notice that it sort of climbed on us.
So
then I had the feeling that maybe it was doing sort
of a figure eight type thing.
That maybe we had
fired it off up or down a little bit yoQ know.
.And it was in three dimensions; a little bi t out
of plane working it's way around us , backing up
and going a.head and coming back around because the
darn thing was always there . It was there until
the darn lights burned out on it. Anyti me we
wanted to find it if you wanted to move the
spacecraft around you could find it out there.
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