Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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Just off the nose it woul d blurr out.
There are two theories,
one group of peopl e sey it's the nose cover that is ablating
on launch, others sey it is staging.
We saw quite a bit of flame at staging and it looked like
there were several streaks there caused by staging.
There
is also a general deposit like a stagnation point right there
that might have been built up during the entire launch, which
might be the nose cover.
So, it might be the combination or
both.
Borman
It might have accumulated due to the urine dumps throughout
flight.seve~al times we saw urine crystals come·back e.nd hit
the nose cone. We never saw them actually hit the window.
I am not sure that some of it, that was practically invisible,
might have hit the window.
It did seem to get worse with
flight.
l-zy- window was not nearly as bad as Jim's.
Lovell
Frank's was better than mine.
Whenever I could I would
give him the cameras to take a picture.
He did a lot of
the Apollo landmark and S-5 and S-6 pictures while I was
controlling the spacecraft.
We have to improve the windows somehow.
We've got to have
some sort of cover or get some certain ty:pe of material.
The windows were perfect when we got in the cockpit.
The
problem they had on GT-5, where they had fog and humidity
because of the difference in temperature when the White