Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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identified by the previous shot. I think maybe this one Mercury. Lee what check the chart on it.

See any stars ____?

Zodical light. No. Solar Corona. No. I was not well enough adapted to ____ patterns along that line.

Shadow of earth of sky?

No.

To photograph the Orion region, it looked about the same as it does from the ground. This area in the center of the Orion that I was trying to use as a target area, the center star in the belt--we got several pictures of that. These were taken with different drift rates on the capsule. We tried to press the capsule on manual control and get it right on very accurately and then use the camera but there was still some drift in the capsule at that time and I had to keep ____ for it. This is not a stable a platform as you would like for this type photography. Made exposures of about 15 to 18 seconds. I was counting off the seconds myself without explosion. That's about it. I been interested though to see whether those came out. I did see some prints and I don't know enough about evaluating those prints to know what we got.

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Well, we discussed this during debriefing some, I think we must have had spitting

some fiddling thrusters that weren't cutting off absolutely clean, that would add just a hair of thrust in one axis or another at a time because I would have the rates zero-ed completely and be sitting right on the spot--with