Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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really pleased.
I think our windows w~re real l y
stayed rel ativel y cl ean.
We built up a slight
coating on them, or something.
Conrad
I think everything we built up on them was on there
at the beginning,
Cooper
But most of it was there to begin with.
Our
windows were so much better than Mercu::-y.
There
wasn't even any comparison.
The thingn you coul d
see out of them were just fantastic. \/e 1re going
t o have to crank up the pl anetarium stars much
higher, in fact , because we saw so man~, more stars
t han we saw at the decreased Mercury values in the
planetarium, It was very confusing, which was
very pleasing.
I think it's really groat .
But ,
even with thi s better window definition , when you
crossed the terminator from day to dark or dark to
day there's a very decided confusing area in there
where you have absolutel y no attitude reference at
all out the window.
In fact, I tri ed E, couple of
times when we were going through the teirminator, to
be compl etel y blackened down, to have r..o lights on
in the cockpit, and nothing to refl ect outside;
yet when you crossed the terminator
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