Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Cooper
And the whole window area was completel;r obliter­
ated by flames.
When the retros go off you're
just in a big barrel of flames--because the whol e
thing is just covered by flames.
Conrad
I wasn't even aware of that. I didn't (~Ven-­
I 'd have said that we didn't see any flume at all.
Cooper
Well , we had everything at full bright-••
Conrad
I guess I had my eyes locked on the instruments-­
Cooper
Well, I did, too, but I also was going to look and
see what it looked like out the window there and
I noted that everytime one of them went off you
got tremendous flame coverage which surprised me
because I didn I t think you would.
I thc,ught
maybe you'd see the glow from it but I lad a
distinct feeling that the whole-­ that tl:.e whole
flame expanded to the point where you felt like
it-­maybe you just felt like it was so bright
it just lit up the outside that much, but I had
a distinct feeling that you really had flames all
over when they went off.
Conrad
Really that 's the high light of the flight in my
mind is going down through that--watching that
TR clock count down and going through TR - 1