Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Cooper
Conrad
FCSD REP
Conrad
with object 65 which was this small island off
Brazil and that was 04 days , 16 hours, 51 minutes,
25 seconds and we have four lovely pictures of the
first island which is 120 miles above the corr ect
island.
We have four more pictures of the correct
island.
We finally found it .
Here is the map problem that we remarked about earlier.
Here then i s the only one that I really messed up.
05 days, 11 hours, 43 minutes , 41 seconds was the
Cape radar test, and I had the darn lens on l/250th
and I should have had on l/30th.
I don ' t think those
4 pictures will come out.
And that' s it for D- 6.
You mi ght mention here the tracking of these missil es?
No strain.
You' ve got to get on them right away.
When Gordo finally saw it the second time it was
just to far away to get him in PULSE,
When they
come r ight off the pad you can see them all right .
It gets harder the higher they get. Especi ally
the second stage.
I got the first missile al l the
way to first stage burnout.
Then I was behind hi m.
I kept seeing a piece of the contrail here and ther e
but I really didn' t catch up with him until he
passed our altitude .
Just about that time he