Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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have been looking out the window -­
Conrad
Yeah, I think you hit the nail right on the head with
that one -­
Cooper
Because once you have been looking out the window for
a while , if you come back in and do anything for a
while until your eyes kind of got settled down was
very difficult.
The M- 9 -- it ' s not the M- 9 vision
test -- it was the M- 9 vestibular functions tests of
we ran that just as we had said we
would run it
we held our heads alined with the
headrest , as straight as possible, and turned the
thing on - - I took mine in my right eye, Pete took
his in his left eye, so t hat I could read along the
side of his and he could read along the side of mine.
I alined with the top of my instrument panel which
is offse.t by some 30 degrees, or so, and I assume
that Pete alined with the top of his also.
And we
would spin the dial and then while looking in there,
aline with what we thought was the parallel alinement
with the top of the panel and then say read, and the
other man would read their reading or would record
the reading down then, and we di d this five times to
get the readings -- enough said for that .
I just
will say that I -- my personal opinion on this thing
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