Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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so all of a sudden this target
which has been going this _way and getiing a little
bit smaller al l of a sudden the whole world will
start t o roll on you too as you are gcing away.
had the feeling that I was falling over a cliff
every time we got back to the end of that thing.
It was pretty weird.
Well, here again, I just can't emphasize enough
I think that a lot of people under play the val ue of
the planetarium.
I think Pete even agrees with me
now that boy, that doggone planetariUIIJ is pretty
essential training,
Yes, i t felt ... . pretty good.
The planetarium, unfortunately, is an item in your
t raining program that is very easy to cut out. You
say well I don't really know that, I can take along
a star chart and I can recognize these, and we all
t end t o do that. We all tend to try and fall into
that.
I tell you, we would never have gotten Nye 1 s
Zodiacal light done without having gone up there at
the .. . and taken his displ ay on it.
Oh, yes. If we hadn't gone up there a ~d actually
gone through it we would never had don= it.
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