Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Conrad
Cooper
Conrad
Cooper
Conrad
FCSD Rep
ill-defined, odd area-­
Yeah, looking down the sun.
Where you have no defined horizon at all. It's
very--a real messy situation. The only thing I
noted different about the horizons this time was
at one morning, at one sunrise, when we saw
those tremendous thunder heads out clear on the
horizon--you remember that?
Yes.
Where we saw the horizon well-defined and these
great big thunder heads with the handles on them
sitting up above the horizon.
They were those
big thunder storms. I would guess that those
things must have gone well in excess of 50,000 feet
probably to be that well defined--clear out on
the horizon some 12 to 15 hundred miles away you
could see that profile of them.
Do you have any­
thing more on horizons?
No.
One thing we might mention here while we're
talking aoout these thunderstorms, you mentioned
before the l ighting in the spacecraft from this
lightning.