Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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I admit this is my old pitch, but still he will have a lot of time
to do things.
So he has a number of experiments on his flight and
he definitely will perform these .
Now , in my case once I solved the
suit circuit problem, I really didn 9 t have many problems.
Frankly,
none to speak of.
But, again to conserve the energy to stay in
orbit meaning the control fuel and the electrical powerp I had to
throw away control attitudes.
Once you try to get a control attitud
back again, you 0 ve got to bring all electrical power back on the line.
You have to use a sizeable chunk of the control fuel.
Thi s cost us
dearly with this weight - limited system.
The way to get around
this, of course, is to have a larger field of view, since you don't
need to move the vehicle as much, and this is, I can already see,
the first salvation on this and this is the lunar module in earth
orbit .
The Gemini has even less field of view than Mercury.
Apollo has possibly as much per man .
To get a large field of view
in space the first time, we can do it with the vehicle that
isn °t going to re - enter (lunar module) - basically that 0 s what it
amounts to .
ordberg = I think it 0 s really fantastic that you fellows have
seen what you have seen with such limitations.
I think it re ally
probably is one of the reasons that people like ourselves are used
t o just l ooking at one dial and we stand in the laboratory and
r ead one meter.
These fellows are really looking fo r everything.
Schirra - Wellp I think that this is part of what fell out of the
criteria that we were selected from, and that is the inquisitive mind.