Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Cooper
Conrad
this big black cloud right down to the ground.
Very clear.
Another thing that was different that I noted
that was a little different than the usual type
of the whole big mass of clouds lighting up-­
one long series of thunderstorms, I noticed where
there was horizontal kind of a chain--horizontal
lightning going over and you'd see it sort of
travel along horizontally through the clouds like
it was moving from cloud to cloud rather than from
cloud to ground.
Okay, thruster firing.
You could see every thruster
on the spacecraft fire in the middle of t he night- ­
you could see the glow from it .
These aft firing thrusters too?
I don't know.
I was just trying to think about
the aft firing ones and we were so busy everytime
we fired them that I wasn't aware of them.
I don't know.
We had the lights up in the cockpit
when we were firing the aft -firing because we were
busy-­
It ' s unfair to say without pulling the test, you
see, because when we were firing the aft firing