Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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Room was dismantled, was not there this time.
Intensity control was good, no problem.
We had two white
lights in the center cockpit, this was our request a long
time ago, and after using it I think we ma.de a mistake. We
never did use the thunderstorm light that we stuck in place
of the red light. Right now Frank and I think we could
have used the red light again because we both did use red
lights a lot more than we thought we were going to, for
night work. It gets your eyes accustomed to the night, and
you can see the airglow and stars a lot better. If you have
bright lights on in the cockpit , at night, with glare off the
window and your eyes adjusted to the white lights, you could
never see out. It ' s just black.
Onboard data: checklist cards preparation, excellent.
I
think the people who made them up , Chuck Stough, has to take
a personal bow because I think that he did an outstanding
job of making up all the onboard data books and cards.
They
are very, very good.
What we did was, tear off the lift-off
cards prior to reentry and just had the reentry section, so
we wouldn't get mixed up.
There are several minor things
which we could change to make it a little bit more compatible,
like getting one card with all the data on it so we didn't
have to flip the cards back and forth when MCC gave it to us.
As a matter of fact that i s exactly what I ended up doing,