Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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here again, I say I realize why we wer,= trying to
sal vage what we could out of a bad sit11ation but
it didn 1t really do justice to the expt=riment.
We
never r eally once really gave the expe:C'iment as far
as the ground observation, a really fa:Lr chance. And
the one time when we really did give it the most
fair chance, when we did have attitude control , was
extremely bad weather -- the haze was ·)ad -- it was
just about like
the
day when we went over it in
the airplane trying to do those observations, it was
a low sun angle and
haze and the vis:Lbility in the
area was not real overly good.
Pete ' s already
covered the window measurements checkli st .
I think
that t his whole _experiment was very well laid down
and very well prepared for and that the people con­
cerned with this experiment did a real fine job of •
it -­
Conrad
I have to make one comment though, I think that the
target size was small enough such that the target
itself , although it had the high contrast ratio with
the surrounding background, that they were looking
for , you know so it would stand out, was lost in the
acquiring -- in other words, th3.t thing was designed
for our close overhead work to see it, and therefore,