Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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Borman
Certainly this factor of weather l eads me to believe that
the whole idea of na:vigating Apollo by a landmark needs t o
be reevaluated. It seems to me that a much more desirable
feature woul d be a series of radar beacons placed throughout
the world, similar to the ones that are used by SAC, or some
type of electronic gadget not dependent upon cl ear weather.
You cannot choose the weather you want, and in our f ourtee.n
day mission, for about el even days we had lousy weather.
The number of primary targ~ts photographed.
How many did
you photograph?
Lovell
We have nine Apollo l andmarks logged in the Apollo land.mark
section:
Sequence 85 - clouds at nadir.
Sequence 137 - no luck, clouds overhead.
Sequence 94 - unable, because of c~0uds.
Took a point of
land nearby.
Sequence 58 - Cloudy.
Sequence 70 - Okay.
Sequence 85 - Just weather is the remark.
Sequence 108 - Clouds, resulting in poor picture.
Sequence 130 - Weather.
Sequence 97 - Weather.
Most of the landmarks they gave us, that were down below
the 15 degrees north l atitude ended up with weather.