Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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McDivitt
while you' re up there you' ve got this thing with
the long eyepiece. I think we can do this with
EVA.
Stow the thing back in the adapter, go back
and get it mounted up, get back in, and you' ve
got yourself just about as long a telescope as
you' d want to put up there.
Same way with
cameras.
I think you can take cameras up.
We
can take some of these big cameras that we ' ve been
wanting to use..
We can have a sighting device so that
we can mount this thing on the outside of the
spacecraft after we get up there,and then point
it with a pointing device at the ground and get
some of these pictures that we ' ve been wanting
to take.
I think we've got some possibilities
there.
Okay.
Celestial.
I think in the nighttime you
can see the stars without any difficulty.
In the
daytime you just can' t see the stars if there ' s
any sunlight whatsoever on the window, or if the
nose of the spacecraft is in the sunlight, or if
the horizon is in the sunl ight, or if some of the
earth is in the window.
I think all these things
tend to limit your night vision.
They create
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