Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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Scientific Debriefing
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Cooper:
Those deploy marks worked real well.
They were excellent for getting
in 1·etroattitude also. They -position your head ·to a real positive position,
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Bill:
We have read the attitude ·records pretty carefull:yo You were between '
20 a.nd 22 degrees, so you were right in .there.
Do you think the window
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smudges, the discoloration of the window, might have had significant effect?
Do you think it produced enough attenuation to cause any trouble?
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Act~ I tried and tried to note how much attenuation you get at
.night. It's just a few seconds until the time you get dark-adapted; I thought
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you became dark .adapted very rapidly, and I didn't see or note any real attenuationo•
• I am sure there was some as there was definitezy smudge layers there ..
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it didn't seem to be.... The bright stars sure seemed bright.
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Bill Armstrong: • J)id you act~ see the light against the ground'l • , •
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Cooper:
Yes.
I made this comment ·here that I even saw it against the
thunderstorm.
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John Boynton:
Go:;t.;do, you talked about the flash rate. The flash rate in
, your debriefing ·might have been ·. slightzy below a flash per ·second.
, Cooper:
I did it on the tape• . I counted off here on the. tape so. you could
get it of~ the t~pe.
I counted 1,2,3,4,5,6,7; It seemed to me that
slightzy s+ower ·than ·one flash .per. second..