John Company

Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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thing.
You are completely blinded because when you
have gotten used to the outside--sunlit earth--and
you come back in.. the cockpit, it takes a few seconds to
adapt to seeing things inside.
Intensity controls--! think they were f:.ne.
I thought
they worked pretty well, and I must say1, as Pete
mentioned, I did like those red lights very well.
Fingertip lights-they worked out all r :.ght.
A
flashli ght would have been better, but t he fingertip
lights are f ine.
Onboard data-
Flight plan strip we r eally didn' t use, We used our
own checkoff list, because all we had on the flight plan
strip was checkoff lists.
You couldn't read it at night,
and we just put something on there beca1::se it was
going to be in the spacecraft.
You didn' t use it?
I set it up in the proper places, but ar.ytime I really
used a checkoff list, I used this one right here.
And
I think that one is going to be replaced by a clock.
Yes . Checkl ist cards- ­
I can't say too much for them.
They are really good.
We beat them over the head and we reworked them and
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