John Company

Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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Lovell
Listen, that was do.ne twice?
Borman
Yea.
Lovell
Was this the NADIR t o 35 degrees West?
:Borman
Yes.
Lovell
Of course we never saw Ascension so I di d not ...
:Borman
Yeah, we never saw Ascension but i t was the location of
t he area where we wanted t o find.
Lovell
I think we did that once, or di d we do 19 once?
:Borma.n
Yes, i t i s t he same thing.
Cumul us clouds. We got some
cloud measurements. Star measurements, the only the thing
we got there was the l ightning.
Cel estial measurement.
We got that. The stars, we did not get the Zodiacal l ight.
We got the stars, the mil kyway, the void.
23 Moon measure­
ments.
We got the Moon.
We got all the missil e measure­
ments.
I do not think it is necessary for us to record i t off
our log book.
Lovell
We missed the Titan launch.
Borman
Yes, we di d not get the l iftoff because of clouds.
But
we picked t hem up when we picked up their contrail s.
Lovell
Yes.
:Borman
We also thr ew i n an extra satellite. It wil l be i nteresting
t o see if they got any data out of that. The