Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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Scientific Debriefing
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Cooper: Maybe as long as a minute.
I doubt if it was that long,
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30 or 40 seconds.
I lost it because it got too weak. It was a long~
:f'rom being. straight out on the horizon but as it got . on up towards that
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direction it faded outJ
Bill: In checking the plot, it ·1ooks like it varies from a little over
second magnitude when you forst saw it to about a sixth magnitude when the
light was turned off.
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McKee:
Do you know what angle you pitched down to'l
Cooper: . I believe it was to -40.
I was then at ~he angle we were
to pitch to. . I apparently had eased off in ya~.
However ·it tracked pretty
well right up the window.
So the yaw was fairly ~ell: ·on.
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Bill:· Did you· ever look away from the light and then .look. back?
able to do this and ·pick it up again? ,
Cooper: .I took ray eyes off of it and had them on the photometer and looked
• • through the hole in it and extincted it. Turned the dial the wrong way in
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Bill: ;• Did you ever notice any change