Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Conrad
And with the gun site superimposed, excuse me,
reticle superimposed on it.
Put it right there to
orient it with the Southern Cross and Grus and
Fomalhaut we would have never gotten that
experiment done, without having gone through that
really that half a day did it for that experiment.
Cooper
Yes.
That salvaged the experiment.
Of course he
will probably ruin the film anyway,
The celestial
identification up there t I think one thing that I
recommend that we are going to have to crank up the
brightness of the stars because we have had them
cranked down to the Mercury level here all this
time and it's just too confusing when you get up
there you see so many more stars than you did in Mercury
,
I
so we are going to have to raise the level, brightness
level of it back up.
Up for the training that we
do because there were multitudes more stars than we
had been trainL~g on.
Conrad
The stars move around in orbit too fast to use them
for spacecraft orientation, as far as I was concerned.
In other words I might recognize a constellation
out there,
The Southern Cross or Orion or something
like that , but unless you know your exact point of
time and have a star chart sitting m front of you