Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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11 • 0 EXPERIMENTS
11.1 Two-Color Earth--L.imb Photography (MSC-10)
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This is one in which we had our first example
of poor flight planning.
They scheduled our
MSC-10 experiment so that it actually confli cted
with some Horizon Scan Tests that we had to
make.
And since our Horizon Scan tests were
being made in conjunction with the platform,
which was only going to be up for a limited
period of time, we had to interfere on the
tail end of MSC-10 to go ahead and start
working on the Horizon Scanner Check.
Anyhow,
we went ahead on the MSC-10,starting at 11:04,
and went through eight series of pictures. This
was the time that we had trouble with the event
indicator.
Didn't we have ten series? I thought we had ten.
I 've only got ei ght indicated here.
Oh, yes,
wait a minute; it says 10 1/2 runs.
I only
have eight recorded here, and
a final one
·being run at 11: 57,
We should have 9 1/2 runs.
Yes.
We should have 9 1/2 runs, and only nine were