Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Cooper
FCSD Rep
Conrad
have had a heck of a lot easier problem if the visual
acuity targets had been located up in Yuma and not
Laredo.
Everytime we came over the West Coast , if
I didn ' t see Yuma, why I was surprised because I
think!I acquired Yuma every time - - it ' s real easy
to pick it out of the desert and there was many clues
to lead you right where those vis targets might have
situated if they had been in the Yu.ma areas, and I felt
that you would probably see them.
And I still think
this is a real worthwhile experiment .
I think it ' s
good for 7, but it ' s got to be revised considerably.
They have got to move that Laredo l ocation,
Okay.
Have you got anything in the book ther e that you
want to put in?
Wel l, yeah.
Let ' s just run by it real quick.
What ·
happened on each one of the
I have several passes
l isted and I have on the first day 00 hours 00 minutes
that we took a vision test, well, those are all in the
flight plan and they are all marked on the cards so
that ' s not necessary to record. It was on the f i r st
day, 18 hours 26 minutes, when I did the window scan.
The Laredo siting we did at 1 day, 18 hours, 34 min­
utes, 38 seconds and we didn ' t even see it. Then