Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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half of them.
Most of them occurred during my sleep
time .
Cooper
Okay, the next one was Sequence 212 .
And that is
on Lake Winemarka and it was a point out in the
l akes in Brazil--down in the Br azilian area, and
it ' s a l arge l ake .
There are no other l akes in the
immediate area.
The l ake was very, very distinctive .
You could see it from some 6 or 700 miles away very
clearly--big, heavy jungle all around the lake and
the point that they selected was the finger of a
little peninsula out in the lake in a particular
point right on the peninsula.
I thought the lake
was easy to find , the peninsula was relati vely easy
to find from quite a distance out .
There was no
problem getting on it . It was a fairly distinctive
landmark.
The light was fairly low - it was late­
in- the- day type pass, and the light was fairly low
over in the West, but no particular problem getting
on it , holding on t he target , and identi f yi ng it .
Apollo l andmark--l et ' s see, I took 1, 2, 3, sequences
of pi ctures over that.
And Apollo landmark 213 was
the next one, and I wonder if they want the magazi ne
and sequence number s .
Okay, on 212 it was magazine 1
and exposure 62 , 63 , and 64.
On Apollo landmark 213