Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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Scientific Debriefing
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Cooper:
The moon was probably 14-al. It was down to about a third moon.
It was a ver:, distinctive moon vb~ you ·could see it but it' wasn.'t causing
the great amount of light tbat a. twU moon would have caused. , , I could see
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the glow on the ground, on. the· clouds :~d on the land, from the moono ., It
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up just at t1:ie .last part c,f the ~n1Jtrt. ·It-was never ·close to
1 th~ moo:Q.
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. Bill ,Armstrong:
' i. in-the retro pack area; they ·ran•.cooler, this flight.
Bill Carmines said th$t they- b-4: ~;ualJ~· flashed the light at thi~ lo~r '
temperatures without .any probla.
Re talked to Langley people and he says
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.that i~ the light had fail~ 1;0. work the first time it would have never
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: , ·warmed enough later in the n:1~t to start flashing. It is hard to visuali~T .. ~: ; . '
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it no~ having been ·working t-he f:Lrst time Bll;d then ·worked the second t:1.me.,,.·,
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Do ·you think your _att,itude. ,..~~ •-eauld you tell any difference •in your
attitude, the second night vl,Am -~
$.alf the ·llgbt. In yaw as C?JDPared
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st • do you think 70\1. . •
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