Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Conrad
We never saw any of the scheduled ones but you' ve
got to have the platform to see them.
They gave us
angles like pitch 82° and yaw 45.
You're looking
at the black sky. You haven't any idea of where
you're looking.
You have to have the platform.
One thing that we did find, if their platform point­
ing at satellites was actuall y the pointing informa­
tion they gave us for the ground objects, why we
woul dn ' t have had any trouble finding them.
Cooper
The pointing information that we got from the ground
was excellent.
Conrad
We hacked that time on the second and we were
really pointed with the platform up and we were
looking right down the pipe at whatever it was that
they were wanting us to look at.
The only reason
we didn't see it is we couldn't make it out. But
we were l ooking at it.
Cooper
Satellites--There was only one time when Pete and
I thought we saw something and we didn't have time
to identify it.
We were in drifting flight and we
never could identify it. I don ' t even know if it
was a satellite. So many things are going by when
you're drifting that it's difficult to say. Geo­
graphical--We saw millions of geographical details: