Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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Borman
Perhaps , the colors were a little deeper i n the photographs
than were the landmarks but photographs are very adequate
presentati on of colors .
I think probably any variance in
the photographs i s due to vari~nce i n sun angle.
Lovell
We understood the targets well enough, I don ' t see any
problem there at all.
We didn't use the maps with gloves
on.
You can hardly use anything with gloves on.
Borman
The best thing you can do with gloves i s t ake them off
and stow t hem as soon as possible.
Lovell
The Apollo Landmark Book size was adequate.
Any smaller
size in maps gets to be too thick or too small , and you
really can't read them in detail. I did like the big map of
the world broken up in four sections, because that gave us a
good approach to the targets. We could use that much better
than we could the orbital plotboard.
Borman
Probably all you need is that big map cut up in four sections
and then a small scale map of the specifi c area.
We don' t
need the darn phot ographs.
Lovell
It's the thickest thing we had to stow.
Borman
Spacecraft control.
As far as tracking ground targets, you
could always achieve the rates in PULSE mode. Fuel was nominal,
PULSE was no diff iculty. We tried to take everything at a
90 degree angle. We had no problems wi th spacecraft control
to acquire and take pictures of the Apollo landmarks.