Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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vision tester and photometer and the f :Lrst thing there
on the photometer -- I got t he first day measurement
with the photometer which required a 30 degree sun
angle and this was really -- had been given a loca­
tion to put the sun on ,the -- Gordo
1 s nide of the
instrument panel to assure that we had the right sun
angle - - okay, we made that measurement.
We had the
photometer in the window whenever we went by the
S- 8/D- 13 target -- we got t hose measur Eiments, but we
didn.
1 t get the last day photometer mea~iurement be­
cause we were in drifting flight and di dn't have the
fuel to set it up.
But I don
1t think the wi ndow
changed.
Cooper
I don ' t either.
Conrad
Yeah, okay.
Cooper
Let ' s see , ·the vision tester, I thought worked very •
well.
No problem on it - - everything "·orked just as
advertised and we did run it just as we had agreed to
run it and was scheduled to run it.
I n fact, in­
creased our numbers of runs on it later on.
Every­
thing went fine on it. I sure noticed a variance
from day to day in our perf ormance
back and f orth,
back and forth -- it would seem to me like we -- and
I think thi s is probably a function of how much we
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