Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Conrad
Yes, the lightning was bright enough io light the
shingles on the spacecraft.
Cooper
You--the whole spacecraft could be li';. You would,
even through the polaroid windows- -with the polaroid
windows down full dark,some of these cig thunder­
storms were lighting the whole thing.
Conrad
Well , I tell you we saw some lightning· like I
just never dreamed existed.
I mean the lightning
bolts must have covered a hundred miles.
Cooper
In general in this lightning-­
Conrad
Cloud to cloud
Cooper
In the clouds , in this lightning, in general,these
clouds light up like they were a big puff of
cotton with a light bulb inside, and the
whole thing just lights up.
But Pete md I both
saw several cases where we would see a thunderst0rm
a l ittle ways out in the distance, and I actually
saw air to ground lightning bolts come right out
of the clouds and right down just 11 cho,:,m".
Conrad
There was one storm we looked at for t:1em in the
daytime where we saw air to ground lig,1tning in
the daytime-­
Cooper
We saw lightning go all the way from t he edge of
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