Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Like doing it in the simulator.
Until ret ros fired .
When they fire , it's quite a sensation.
But , we went cl ear to 400K--we went almost the 14
minutes before we had a horizon.
We had the
ground in sight pr evious to this
Well , not much previous to this .
But we were looking at that scr ewy gray- ­
Well, I 111 tell you, we fired them at Hawaii , and White
Sands was the first thing I saw coming out of the termina­
tor and that 's looking straight down. It was still black
r ight behind Whi t e Sands and no horizon looking at the
nose.
But looking straight down , White Sands was the first
thing I saw.
We still had a rather nebulous
horizon about 45 degrees out the window when we
crossed the Mississippi River, I had the
decided feeling that we were right on t he east
coast , but by this time the plasma was so bad that
I couldn' t really tell .
I had the decided feel ing
that we were crossing into the Atlantic Ocean by the
time that we had a full horizon out there .
Well , now I think our windows on this flight --! was