Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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of magno control inputs and you'd start a little drift from very slow.

Probably the drift rates went out over a quarter of a degree per second during the time that I was trying to make the pictures. But that's enough if you drift off and you have to correct back the line you drift off a line correct back line, you do this for 15 or 20 seconds, it's rather a crude way to take pictures.

(Question insaudible)

Yes. Hand held and had it up against the visor to steadiness and turn it very slowly. We had the loose site on the top of it. A loose site with a cross hair and so that I could keep that right on the--lined up on the stars. It will be interesting to see if we came out with anything on that.

Make any other comments about our ____?

No. It looks about like it does on the desert on a bright summer night.

In Twilight. Did the twilight bother you at all? Can you tell us anything about that.

You mean the light I described as after sunset?

(Statement by Dr. Roman, insaudible)

The only time twilight bothered either way was when you ____ because sunrise is the--the early pickup sunrise coming up is in the scope facing backwards, of course, to the direction of motion and you see the sun come up and this would--this twilight, you watch it increasing in the scope, meanwhile we're holding manual control most of the time and this was very difficult. For some reasons, this was more difficult to hold accurate control on the periscope at sunrise that it was to look back out the window and hold