Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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Lovell
That was a little scientif ic experiment which we were
asked to do: to see if we could see the blue horizon
line, blue air glow in the daytime by keeping dark adapted
and using the blue filter.
Borman
The r esults were negative.
Lovell
That is right.
Borman
Anything else?
Lovell
I think we hit everything on the sextant.
Borman
We had no equipment malfunctions with the sextant other
than the f act that you got double vision.
Lovell
And the sextant was not as bulky to operate on t he space­
craft as it i s on l and. It is a pretty bulky piece of
equipment, but it is not bad.
11.4 Visual Acuity and Astronaut Visibility and Vision
Test (M-9)
Borman
Updating techniques and communications proceduresi
This was an
area that was outstanding. I t seems redundant to comment about it
everytime, but is is true. Equipment set up and usage for the
vision test and the M-9 experiment, no problem. We tried this
in the simulator and we tried it in flight and it was the same.
Lovell
The photometer left a little bit to be desired.
Borman
Oh , I think we are talking not just about the tests that