Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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thing right now that we haven ' t mentioned befor e ,
I believe the Polaroid window f i l t ers we
took were the greatest things we had along.
Conrad
Especially when we got on that drift in fli ght.
Cooper
I ' d reall y r ecommend those very strongly,
We put
both of those up dim then down to where they com­
pletely block things out, turn the lights out , go
to sleep and really have at it .
Conrad
One guy could open his up and real ly see the gr~'.ll1d
well with them in the open conditi on, but i t was a
circular hole that was small and with the filter on
the other window it kept t he spacecraft r el ativel y
dar k i f the other guy was t rying to sleep.
Cooper
Ri ght.
What ' s this mission br iefing?
Conrad
I think that was supposed to be the t hing that we
changed courses in midstream and we di d; we briefed
each ot her and brought one another up on what was
going on and what we had written down .
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