Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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·,scientific Debriefing
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Bill Armstrong:
You feel brightness suitable f'or a rende~vous
be something on the order. of second or third magnitude.
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Cooper:
Yeso
Bill: That 1s one of t he main things we wanted to ·rind out..
Does
of the secon~ night l ook about right?
Was the third night too d:l.m'l
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Cooper:
Yes, the third one is .getting ·a little too d:l.mo
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Bill:
Do you think you have got to have good sighting information .to pick
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C~o:per:
Well, it is a pretty big sky at night .up there and there are a lot
of bright starso
I t hink ·you're going to have to have some -sight~g,..date.
to get within a ~easonable ~one area to hunt . for ito
McKee:
What about the flash ·:rrequency r ate'l
• Cooper:
I think the flash rate could be cut downo
I think you could maybe
IhaJ.ye the flash rateo • I woul.d rather .-see it twice as bright and see it fl.ash ·\
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half as of'teno , A flash , rate, even -one every two seconds is stii;t distinctive. ·:
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May1>e not quite as distinctive as ·the one per second, but it •Still wbuld
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_Bill: • How about the· deploy marks?