Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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Scienti fic Debriefing
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hr . Voi~s: At retro fire, did you note feelings of lateral motion?
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, pooper:
On the third one, it gave me pretty good little boot in yaw.
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' il)r. Vons:
This is distinguished from what you could see lookiig out?
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:understand it, you felt the retro rockets but they didn't change your imprilssion
that you were sitting stationary?
Cooper: All I did was feel them and I still had the feeling I was moving right along.
Dr. Vons:
Did you feel you were moving backwards?
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moving backWards in retro attitude, then you get quite a motion as
I stated over the earth.
Question:
Did you have any sensations of change in attitude _between perigee and
apogee, perhaps as a result of the amount of curvature you could see in the earth's
surface?
Cooper: No, I couldn't see any noticeable change in that. What was more distinct
was whether you had haze or were in a clear area.
Lou Fir.her:
We identified one of your pictures taken vertical off Calcutta.
Cooper:
Did you note the one before that over the Rangoon area, with the little
things out over the river; they look like warehouses or something?
Fisher:
Did you see,Calcutta?
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Cooper:
No.
Fisher:
Did you see any airports?
Cooper: Ye~, I saw numerous airports. The runway patterns show up very distinctly.
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