Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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the addition of humidity in the air. If you have
high humidity and then low sun angles, you are out
of luck. If it is a very dry humidity, the low sun
angles don ' t hurt you nearly so much.
The sightings
--there again the ease of which you are going to get
your sightings done, get on to them and get them
spotted and so on, i s going to be dependent on the
landmark itself.
Those of them that we got, I think,
are certainly reasonably landmarks , although some
of the confusion things can be­ -
Conrad
I just found out why the whip antenna didn't go up.
It was my fault .
Cooper
Why is that?
Conrad
Because I powered down the common control bus.
Remember, I turned off all squib batteries to save
batteries later.
Cooper
You didn' t turn those off till later.
Conrad
Well, I know I didn ' t, but I pr obably turned them
off before we ran the antenna up though, or tried
to.
I ' m not really sure.
Cooper
I don ' t think so .
Conrad
Well, don't mind that. If it comes out, well , that
was the reason.
Cooper
I remember when you powered those down.
We had
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