Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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on the axis which is easily the equivalent of 800 million candle
poweroo osingle flare on the ground ooo
Schirra - uh - huh -­
O'Keefe - Well, I think 2 or 3 million is the biggest thing they
ever tried to use o
So the directed beam has quite a big advantage
over the undirected beam, if people ' s orbital work is good enough .
Schirra - Agreedo
Our problem of course, is unless we have the wind0w ,
meaning, of course, attitude, fairly vertical in relation to the
surface of the earth, you can ' t take advantage of this.
This i s j ust
the confined attitude that we 0 ve been flying ino ••o
Shoemaker - I think this bears on another question that was
submitted.
I might read it and find out what else we can add to it.
The ph otographs of terrain were not successful.
Some of the trouble
was obviously due to cloud cover, and some of the film was over­
exposed .
Can you comment further on this, and do you have any
suggestions for successful terrain ph6tography on future flights?
Schirra - Yes, I do o
I used a BIWI automatic light meter which is
still ideal for the job 9 and again we were not briefed carefully
enough on the BIWI automatic, and if I' had this to do again, I
would get the manufacturer from BIWI to come down.
In fact, many
things I 've talked about for equipment, I would not ever -- I said
this years before this flight, but while on the programo.oif I needed
some information on the capsule, I would not feel adverse to calling
Mr. McD onell (McDonnell Aircraft) down, as an exampleo
I f I had a
BIWI exposure meter, I would like to have Mr. BIWI or whoever is