Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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do with spare part items or items like that.
Nordberg - It's again the depth.
Schirra - Well, we are working a movie camera where TIROS is taking
stills, is what you are saying.
Tennyson - Exactly, and you imply a height which the eye in itself
in a still picture mode can't see, but as it goes you say, ah, ha
- this moves at a different speed, and therefore, it had to be
higher.
Schirra - I would accept that, except ~or the photograph I have
here which shows this depth.
Or is it reminding me of it?
I do
not know.
Do you see the depth I talk about in that photograph on
page 9?
Tennyson - To some degree (perhaps), b~t, no, not as directly.
I found that picture interesting, but as indecisive as a good many
of these prints are.
Schirra - Well now, do you have all of the~e Weather Bureau
photographs?
Nordberg - I have not seen all of them - well, we may not have them ­
I find that sometimes it is very peculiar that as a NASA outfit ­
NASA Center - we often have less immediate access to some of these
• films than the Weather Bureau has - (Laughter).
Schirra - Well, let's -- I find this disturbs me very much in
that when I yielded to taking a camera·, I actually did want to take
one, but I wanted to make people fight to give me the best piece of
equipment they could get rather than fust take a camera.
I wanted
it very clear that those people who could use this data would get