Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

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up to the 1>ilot 1 s
There
Belt 17
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. It 1s the same kind of problem we have associated with the
booster.
We spend quite a bit of time ahead of time trying to determine
exactly how much of t he tumbling booster we could plan to go up and take a
look at and we finally came to the conclusion that it was
good judgment to approach the booster using his O'W?l j udgment on it.
just wasn 1t a way to put a hand.J.e on it - well it's tumbling so many de­
grees and out of plane and you can go or you can 1t go.
I think if you see
it, you'll know whether you can or you cant.
Is the problems connected with the difficulties in closing the hatch
unidentified?
They ' re working on those, I t hink.
I'm not sure that they completely
ompleted the case .
I was asked to find out whether we have some lubricants in the very close
cauldrons was contributed
I think that kind of inf'orma.tion should come from t he systems people who
have done a lot of work on it.
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Are there any other general questions?
Yes, I have one.
In your effort to photograph specif i c objects on the
groun, wh~t kind of siting devices - .did you use optical siting? Did
you try at any time to use the reflex viewing arrangement of the 35 mm?
uh siting deviL:e
For siting'/
yes.
We looked out through it but it was mounted in such a manner that you