Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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Lovell
Right. Weather is the big bugaboo on Apollo landmarks, or
using earth land.marks for Apollo.
Borman
The acquisition data was good.
The pointing data was good
on all the experiment updates, except for one. They missed
the time on an S-5.
We caught it, and did it ourselves be­
cause we knew where the a.rea was supposed to be. The point­
ing data given was great throughout the flight. The updat­
ing wa.s fine.
We bad no problem.a at all. Pointing instruc­
t ions were good.
Borman
Concerning taking acquisiti on photographs for the Apollo
l andmarks, it was pretty dam hard to determine anyt hing
when we pitched 30 degrees down to pick up the landmarks.
We could not pick out the air f i elds or anything.
We would
point the camera and take a picture, but we did not lmow
what we were taking pictures of.
We could not see it with
the naked eye.
I am thinking of the airfield in Brazil.
We took this acquisition picture without any idea of what
we were taking a picture of until we finally got to the
nadir. Then, we looked down and could see the runw~. I
think it was in Belam Province in Brazil .
The weather was
a very definite f actor in photographing the Apollo l a.nd­
ma.rks, and of course, it wuld be a very definite factor in
using the Apollo landmarkso
Lovell
We had to use the sun angl e that we had at the time we got