Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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besides the smoke there was nothing else to -­ in
a contrast nature -­ to attract us to the target area
Cooper
That ' s right.
Conrad
And that -­ the problem was acquiring it -­ we were
always in the process of acquiring but by the time we
acquired it, we were already overhead where we should
have been making readings.
Cooper
Yeah, I think that they might do ~ell to put some
big colored panels out or some type of something
that would be more distinctive
Conrad
Let ' s (Say this -­ the times that we saw the ships,
the time we found the carrier, we had the carrier
wake in sight for 500 miles even though we didn ' t
have the ship in sight and we were boresighted ,
tracking,,spacecraft pitching down keeping track of
that thing when we got close enough to actually
see the aarrier with our naked eyes, why it's because
we had been tracking and looking and focusing right
in the right spot all this time.
You can' t do that
with that type target, and this was the thing that
I was afraid that was going -­ they've tried to
control everything in this S~S/D- 13 experiment
measure the atmosphere, they have measured our eyes,
they have made the targets the right size, but they