Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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hands and in particular the bright overhead one is
very hot .
Conrad
One other--let ' s see, we talked about the purge
switches being 3-positioned rather than spring
l oaded .
And one other thing we noticed, one systems
glitch which seemed to affect either scanner-- out
over the Pacific a couple of times we passed some
really, really, really big areas of cload cover-,
I mean we were almost--the whole visible sky or
ground was covered with clouds or a good portion of
it and this seemed to give the scanners fits.
Cooper
These same cloud.a were that big cloud t hat had all
the lightning in it too--later on we- ­
Conrad
Well, it may have been.
I didn' t make n.ny correla­
tion that way, but I, in the daytime, I noticed that
the scanners had quite a hard time doiner their job
when they were looking at much horizon covered by
clouds.
Got very irratic.
I think that ' s a known
phenomena--with scanners, anyhow, but I just wanted
to mention that they did kind of kick up when there
were a lot of clouds a.round.
We talked about the
right auxiliary light bulb bug thing breaking off.
And I have one question,
There was one place in the
world where we 0
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