Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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Scientific Debriefing
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Bill: The spread of light isn't too great.
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Coope~: It is pretty hard to Judge the; light
Mercer:
Did .you see the ·stars during this• ~'l
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Cooper:
Not this particular ··orbit.
No I didn't.
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(Second Experiment • Balloon J?.ra,g)
Dey:
Mr. Carmines will you give. us a quick run-down on ·.the -balloon ·expe
failure?
Carmines:
I tal.ked with Instrumentation people and everyone agreed that
we really don't know what happened.
We had one relay actuateo
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several possibil.ities• . To me the most l.ikely place of trouble is the final •
plug.
The pins are on the pigtail and in putting this together you can bend
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these pins and get a misalignment.
W~ checked the plug :and.in this case the
:pin is near ·the case ~d if it ~ent it could ground..
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Bill: The squibs were in parallel and a number ·of ·tests showed' eithe:x: • one '.- ·•
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of the squib would fire the latch. The most probable cause, is in ·the circ,uitry.,
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(Discussionoon ·G~ound Light _Observation)
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Bill Armstrong:
How hard wa.s it to pick up the light when .you .first
Did you have -trouble picking ·up this ground light at all?
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