Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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Cooper
It was close enough so that almost any attitude
you were in you could see i t shining on the
spacecraft.
Even if it was clear back out here
you could see the nose just lighting up from it.
Conrad
So I know it couldn' t have been too darn far away.
I mean maybe up to five miles or something l ike
that, but it didn ' t get that far away from us .
I
don' t understand the 375.
I was really surprised
that those guys called up and said it was 375 miles
away.
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Cooper
Yes.
Well , I don't believe that figure.
Conrad
It will be real interesting to see what they dig
out f r om it.
Well, all the radar and everything
we had is on the tape , isn't it?
Cooper
Well, that was our first big heart breaker.
Conrad
We ought to be able to put that all together .
Cooper
After all the work we did on t he REP , then not
to pull the rendezvous out, we sure-­
Conrad
Well , from there until we got the GO to 6-4 we
just were along for the ride.
We just stayed-­
Cooper
I knew that--I was just so sure of all the time we
..
put in simulating that darn thing I just had a
queasy, uneasy feeling that maybe we better put