Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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there t he point is, right there .
You just don't
miss it. Updating, of course , you've got to keep
these times updated as you--depending on your
ephemeris, and how you are sliding around on your
original time. Ours, fortunately , was just right
on the money practically the whol e mission, fairly
late in the program we began to decay enough that
we were changing times fairly significantly, but
the weather is the biggest factor of all .
Of course,
if t he weather is bad in the area, you do:1 1 t get it.
You just don ' t get the t arget .
I f it exists , humidity
l ike you find along the West Coast of t he United
States
then you aren ' t going to get it although
some places out there like the point by Santa Barbara
and Point Arguella and some of those poin·~s, even in
spite of fog and haze, almost i nvariably Bhow up .
These are the kind of things that should be taken
into consideration .
The weather is pr obably t he
biggest factor on whether you are going to get a
point or not .
Sun angle is not so importcnt as
weather, although it definitely is a factc,r in that
very early or very late the sun angles ree.lly tend
to cut down the visibility, particularly if you have
the addition of humidity in the air . If you have
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