Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Cooper
FCSD Rep
Cooper
FCSD Rep
in the middle of the States , like Dal l as , For t
Worth , and Jacksonville.
I tried some nighttime photographs with the 200 mm
l ens on high speed film with sever al different
speed setti ngs just to see i f they would come out
and what they would come out like- ­
Of what?
Oh, of Orion and several of the constellations-­
several celesti al fixes--once of some airglow,
I t ook a picture of that aurora that we saw over
there and, of cour se, all kinds of su~set s , sun­
rises , and the moon coming up through the airglow,
and things of this type.
A l ot of di:n light stuff
we took with hi gh speed fil m. It may or may not
come out, I don I t know.
We were gues,3ing at some
of the exposures .
A gr eat many thi ng:3 on the ground,
of course, we took pictures of that w1~re unexpect ed
things that we just thought were real t arget s of
oppor tunity.
Okay, that' s the end of the experimen·~s .