Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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Scientific Debriefing
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Coo:per:
Well first I started trying to get Tfl¥. 180° yaw point. This is
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when you have to go into your ■tar charts 50 ~ute1 ahead ot Where :,ou had •
norn:ia.;uy been used to using them.
ir:.finally did find star patterns that gave
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me the proper orientation. ,I was wiing, around 15 to 120 degrees pitched downi
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I got_around. ·this area, I then tried varying ·the· attitude ~P and down to-
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look for the light~
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1She:pard:
You mentioned' in your repOrt that,--you talked about approx
25 minutes a:f'ter you caged your gyros, that you saw' a ·lot of li'ghtning
par'tfcularly in that area.
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Cooper: · Well, · this is .,one possibility· that there was a slight compromise
to the .light. 1 Particularly on the first night side there was co~iderabl
large lightning down ther_e.
I found concentrations of large thundersto
•right up .in there and saw quite a lot iof -light flashing through fairly
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I still don't believe that even on the other night
spite of these I still could\see the light even with -:this as a ba.ckgroun
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