Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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Mercury were traversing was in a plane something· like· thiso
This is your point I think, Larry, Isn't it?
Dunkelman - That's one
Schirra - So they come down this way which mathematically isn't
hard to solve, but you should consider this.
Dubin - This plane may vary a certain amount and it is very
difficult to know which way.
Schirra - The spacecraft at this point was under attitude
control and was fairly tight in a sense.
Roman - I think Larry's point is that though we · don•t· real l y
know if we are ... if we are actually taking a traverse str aight
through the atmosphere, it may be something in front, a tangent
.
line, or behind it.
Dunkelman - The first thought _is to put a line right · through
there, and at this point this may be on the plane but· it may
not be that.
Some may be ahead or behind, or both ....
Schirra - In other words, these layers in this sense could
be all staggered out and this one stacked like a bunch of
steps in a sense.
Dubin - And they could be higher in altitude than a simple r i ght
angle projection.
O'Keefe - It's quite safe.
Schirra - I was looking at two dimensions in a sense.
Cameron - The right angles of proj~ction and this · is the
twilight zone of the spectrum.