Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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gleaming thing.
Schirra - The only opportunities I had for looking vertically were
during boost and re-entry and a lucky chance while drifting.
O'Keefe - If you are going to observe during the daytime, the whole
window has to be turned so that the window doesn't look at the sun
and so that it doesn't look at anything that looks at the sun and
so that it doesn't look at anything that looks at something that lookJ
at the sun.
Schirra - Right.
Tennyson - Otherwise, this would imply that to know with r e ason able
exactitude what is being photographed through the window in terms of
spectra or anything like that, you'd not only have to know the trans­
missivity of the window spectrum range by running it value by value
across it, but you would have to know what was on the window and
what the angle, the incident, sunlight and everything else were
because some of this is going to wind up inside on the camera.
Schirra - Right.
Gill - So, you didn't go through the periscope hole, you say?
Schirra - Basically, you were ...
Tennyson - I was talking about these weather bureau pictures .. .
Gill -
Oh you were ... those weather bureau pictures, oh well . . .
Schirra - Where we are trapped really is that we can't duplicate
what amounts to being in the bottom of a well.
Tennyson - Well, I understand.
Schirra - That's the whole thing.
Tennyson - This isn't a criticism ... it's just a comment really.