Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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of the serious deficiencies in the flight was the dirty
window.
Lovell
I just talked to John Erinkman about the film.
He said a
lot of it was good, but a lot of it they could tell the
window was dirty.
Eorman
What about the booster film?
Lovell
They haven't processed two rolls of film yet and they don't
have the Polaris launch yet.
The Houston one turned out
sort of hazy and I thought it was a clear day.
He told me
there was haze on the ground.
Borman
Did they see Houston all right?
Lovell
They could make out the International Airport.
:Borman
You took that with the 250 mm. lens.
Lovell
The high speed film.
They don't want to process it until
they talk to us to find out what kind of ex:posures we used.
We had all kinds of ex:posures.
I think the picture that was
in the paper was from the 16 mm. camera.
The window was very dirty. And I have a ... a picture was
taken of it. Shows the ...
Borman
Jim drew a sketch of the window in the S-8/D-13 log.
Lovell
There was a greenish, greasy film over the whole thing right
in the center.
Outside of that was a sort of a haze or fog
effect. Right along the outer edge, it was clear. If I
focused on the nose of the spacecraft it would be blurry.