Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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11.0 EXPERIMENTS
11 . 1 Visual definition of celestial objects (D-1) , nearby object
photography (D- 2), and terrestrial features(D-§l
Conrad
Okay.
D-1, mode 01. These are going ti) be real
straightforward. D-1 mode 01 was done :ln con­
junction with D-4 and it was done photogTaphing
the moon. It was done as advertised at 01 days
16 hours 30 minutes, and we took the mo()n with
magazine 11. We took 4 pictures at 1/30 of a sec­
ond.
We took the moon on magazine 9 at 1/60 of
a second, 4 pictures. We took 4 picturHs of the
moon on magazine 10 at 1/125 of a seconci, and all
at that time period or shortly thereaft«?r 16:30.
In the meantime, we were making the recording
IR measurements of the moon, so we have 12 pictures
of the moon on the three camera backs , :> 400
film, 3401 film, and 8443 film.
That WHS
sequence 3 with the Questar lens, visual acquisi­
tion mode.
Now, we did not track with t he peri­
scope.
We found that the boresight was good
enough, and we didn' t want to screw anything up.
So Gordo did all the tracking with the r eticle.
Cooper
I think we have mentioned it bef'ore, but we might
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