Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965
NASA-UAP-D020 · page 111 of 325
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106 @9 ► IEll;l Ii~ 111..\L Cooper Conrad FCSD REP Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad 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 EO♦~liiM-iJiO.L