Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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is that it was put in here politicall y , that it was
ill planned, ill defined, and is a worthless experi­
ment.
I hope someday somebody will have the courtesy
t o check some of these things out more thoroughly.
Ground observati ons - - we can't even say about the
Austr alian site - - the Woodleigh sit e because the
weather was such that we never got a look at it - ­
t wo times we could have gott en a look at it, t he
weather was very bad over the area and one - ­
We saw the smoke so clearly though,~ and the weather
was so clear that I could sort of put that in a
category with Yuma, you know, I just wished we had
seen i t
Yeah, I do too.
That darned Laredo site -- even when we saw the
smoke - - the contrast ratio was down so much on the·
target outlines
Yeah
That we had a great deal of difficulty finding the
target.
Now Gordo found them a couple of times when
I didn' t even f ind them even looking right at the right
spot and I -- when I 'd find them, why I 'd be too
late -- I mean we'd be already at the Nadir and
going away from i t and by that time , we 'd usually be