Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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pitchJ like this, rollj pitch o
In other words ~ you step your way
around o It is not a smooth maneuver as you would anticipate
in an airplane where you just roll and come around and cut a
swathe without changing attitudeo
Nordberg - In daytime, it should be really a striking thing,
the horizon looking toward the sun and, on either side of the
sun , and also looking straight away from the sun it could be
extremely bright ooo and at 90° 0
Schirra = You know where we are going to have the most fun?
It 0 s with the lunar module - the LEM or the Bug in earth orbito
By gosh, that's going to be great , because you practical ly have
an observatory on your hands o
A lot of open panel area that doesn't
have to be protected for re -entry or exito
That will give us our
first real opportunity to look in almost any direction at any timeo
You should see the fight we had 9 to keep a 5th window in the
Apollo command module o
They were about to rip it up and save
16 lbso
It was in the right seat where you spend 90% of the time
on a trans - lunar tripo (gasp) Negative o (Laughter) We said no
so we had a seancej that 0 s what we call ito
This is when we get ·a
majority of the astro~auts together and we agree o If there are any
dissenters it is just too bad o If they are in the minority~ wel l,
we come out with a united opinion.
This is how we got our window in
Mercuryo
It was the result of a seance == it cost $500;000 and I think
you know its worth it o It was for observation not only getting
attitudes o