Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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r eally impressed me.
Cooper
Here is where we did all t he photographing.
Conrad
Yes, that' s right .
Here is where we photographed
Australia one day.
(Much Laughter)
Cooper
We were photographing the hell out of Australia coming
right down across here.
Then we thought, well , that' s
odd.
Never had noticed that. Where is that island
off here? Well, that does look kind of like Sumatra
coming across there.
And there is another big island
and I thought, well, darn, I know there isn't another
big island coming off there, and it was Borneo, and
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here comes Austral ia.
Fortunately, we had the
time on it, so somebody can go back thro·igh and
reconst ruct wher e we really were.
Conrad
I was trying to find where we struck out Australi a and
wrote down Palestine.
Cooper
Pal estine.
Dear me. We had two cameraB going just
as fast as they would click.
You know, elicket y
click click. Nobody had gotten aerial photographs of
Australia before during the daylight.
.
Conrad
Listen, I t aiLked to Paul Backer and he t old me the
16mm film came out great.
So, maybe we got t he REP
pi ctures, too.
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