Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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saw one fire was one of these 4th of ~-uly fire­
cracker stand-up type bombs that you light the fuse,
you know, and the thing sort of like ·;he Roman
candle--it sort of spits out flame and a few
sparks you know and then-­
Yes, that's right .
That really did it.
And the other thing is that
everybody's been talking about how bright they
were at night and maybe again I was geared to
see in the really, really brilliant light --I
didn ' t really think t hey were that bright--now
t hey do disrupt night vision and they did disrupt
t he horizon, but they.'re not that brignt .
Well , of course you 1ve got to recogniz,~, too, that
we saw them under different conditions and the fact
t hat we were expecting t hem to be very bright and
we bad cabin light ing up full bright.
Yes .
And they were by comparison with the full bright
cabin lighting--they were not as bright as we
expected.
We also went around though with the lie;hts on red
there when we were alone and you were firing only
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