Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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I guess from what I could see of the thing, I think
it was a 2-3-4, that was all I had of it. Basically, we
had a picture from Gr-5.
Borman
We had pictures from G'11-5 with us in the cockpit to help
us acquire it.
Lovell
We could see the red ground with no strain at all .
We
knew where to look and it was just difficult to find.
Borman
You might mention that if they had gone to Yuma, if we
had not had to change our launch trajectory, it would
have been great. You could pick out the area of the
Salton Sea there even from where we were, 3 or 4 hundred
miles south, it stood out l ike a sore thumb.
Lovell
I do think though that for the amount of time that you
are over the target, the amount of squares they were
expecting you to read are too much.
Borman
Yes.
Lovell
Because you just cannot read that much.
You have to
acquire it, examine it, and then by that time you are
going over it.
Borman
The window measurements.
We did this; it was called to do
it twice, but we did it three times because of the fact
that the tape recorder was shot a.nd they had to get real
time ™• They did not get good TM on o.ne pass, so we did it
again at an opportune time.
Unfortunately, the photometer