Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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it was the clearest picture of the Cape.
Boy, that was beautiful. You coul d see every de­
tail. You could see every causeway and every street,
everything that rode around the Cape, and buildings
all over the Cape.
All that was on the same day but it was another
orbit.
Celestial -­
Gosh, we coul d see seventh magnitude stars-­
Mercury never had a window.
Our windows were filthy.
When we l ifted off it just absolutely unforgiveable
how dirty they were. Yet there were many times the
magnitude of visibil ity the Mercury windows were.
We could see easil y seventh magnitude stars. Well,
in Orion we coul d see all seven stars in the belt
and we could see cl usters down the side of the leg..
I've never seen those clusters before.
I have seen
big bl owups of them, but you could definitely see
two good size cl usters. Celestial - -We saw a lot of
planets and we saw the moon under all kinds of con­
ditions. We saw the sun.
We took Polaroid testings
on the sun. We ran the Polaroid fil ters at differ­
ent angles. It looks to me like the sun has circul ar
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