Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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That was a period of time that I -­
Before number 4-­
I thought we weren't going to get number 4.
What would you estimate the time?
Well, I'd say it would have been a full second.
Boy, I think it was at least a full second.
Time up there is going to seem like-­
Time--yes.
I t may have been shorter than that--but there
was a definite delay.
I 1m sure that our time sensing mechanism was overly
tweaked at that period of time and we probably were
overly sensitive to it, but there was no doubt
I don't believe there was any doubt , and we both
arrived at this conclusion independently too-­
that number 2 came in at the right sequence on
number 1 and then there was a short delta time and
then number 3 fired and then a longer delta time
and number 4 fired.
Okay, how about the visual sightings duri ng thi s.
Ma.n-­
We were I FR completely the cockpit lights up full
white, pitch black and-­