Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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The carrier was the one thing that it really
bothered us on.
Two different days on the carrier
shots doggone it you could see one day--for in­
stance we saw the carrier wake and-­
But the sunlighting was such-­
The sunlighting and the-­
You lose the wake and everything-­
And then the scattered clouds, too were such that
you were kind of hunting for him in and around the
scattered clouds and sunlight angle was low on it
and we lost him.
The day we got him there were clouds b~ck there
but gee we could see him for 500 miles out and we
never lost t hem.
Just the lighting conditions were ideal t hat day
and he was also out in kind of an open area in
t he clouds .
Okay, horizons. The horizons were of ~curse, as
usual, I t hink day and night were fairl;r well defined
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except as you come into the--as you go in out and
out of the terminator.
Just at that p,~riod of time
where you' r e going into t he l i ght or out of t he
light through the terminator it ' s a ve:-:y fuzzy