Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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Flf)ENTIA ..
the whole thing star ted to warm up.
You could see
the frost melt outside .
Everything seei:ned t o go up.
The fuel temperatures would go up, and t'.le whole
ECS system would warm up, the cabin wouli warm up
and everything.
We were sitting there-­
Conrad
A slow drift or stabilized fli ght-­
Cooper
When we wer e sitt ing t her e r eally spinning up, th:ings
just got colder and colder and colder.
:IJ"ow by
spinning up I ' m talking about we got up )nee to
12 degrees per second. It wasn' t any bother to us
except visuall y.
You just couldn ' t stani to look
at i t out the window. It just gave you 3uch an
awful looki ng pi cture.
Like you were in an inverted-­
upside down--wrong side up--. So we fin~lly put
the polaroid filter s up . . . the holes.
Conrad
We got completely i n the dark ther e .
Cooper
I didn ' t even want to look at what was ~)ing on.
It was odd because before you could take a penci l and
put it out here and it's the best attitu,ie indicator
you had. If there' s any little r ate goi:1g on at all
the penci l would give it to you.
You ca1 sit and
hold it r i ght out in front of you and it's just like
an arti f i cial horizon. It' s the most be,mtiful-­
or camera or whatever you
ve out there it will do
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