Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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we ran the left side only, we ran the right side
only; we ran them in a:ny combination you could think
of, just dependent on what you wanted to do with them.
Sometimes you needed lights in the daytime, sometimes
you didn't need lights in the daytime. It depend s on
what your orientation ~a9 and what you were doing.
That was very interesting. It's an entirely lighting
situation than in an -ai-rplane.
Cooper
Let ' s see. We checked out the one light that we hadn't
mentioned here.
I think we mentioned all of them ex­
cept the doggone docking light. We did check it out,
and it really throws out a nice light out there.
We
didn ' t have anything to try it out on out beyond the
nose, but it sure lights up the nose.
As a matter of
f act, on that onenlght side we kept wondering where in
the heck that light was com.;_ng from.
Conrad
I kept saying, "Hey, the sun is really shining on the
nose for a long time. " It was the night I blew up the-­
Cooper
We were pointing straight up.
Conrad
Yeah, I 'd blown up the shrimp and gotten it all over
the right console, and when I was cleaning it off, I
had inadvertently turned on the docking light switch.
It took me about 10 minutes looking out there trying
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