Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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the best print available, and I definitely have this group on
that list.
For one, I am disappointed that this occasion where
I pu~led this Weather Bureau filter out of the back to take
these two pictures of the moon, I have heard and I have yet
to have seen the graphic results of those two black and whites
on the moon, which are quite interesting to a lot of people.
I have heard this.
Now where they've gone, I don't know.
Although I know they can be obtained again, I thought this was
a shame.
Tennyson - I don't think that I have ever seen these prints.
And, we are in the office that supposedly collects the requ i re­
ments for meteorological satellites and I have not seen the
direct prints of this.
The only thing I have seen come out
Schirra - Well, I have heard that if you take - and I haven't
had the prerogative either - if you take the motion and project
it on a very good s~reen, it is really something to see -- at least
of these two lunar pictures.
And that ' s why I took the Hasselblad .
To take this big piece of emulsion - the 70 mm film rather than
a 16 or 35 mm . - and this I do know about photography that the
larger the strip of film, the more you will get out of it. That's
why we went first class with a Hasselblad (camera) and why I am
not at all in favor of taking a 16 mm.
c amera along which is what
we are using.
Nordberg -
We had, in the early days, right after MA-6, we had
written to Kleinknecht and had gotten periscope film, which, you
know what the quality is, and we got always the answer that they