Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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I
had not had a chance to warm up for 10 minutes.
We were at
such a low fuel state then that it was either then or never,
so we did it, and I hope they got the data.
Now this window
measurement business was always a l ittl e nebulous to me.
am not sure exactly what they were going to get out of it.
:But it seems like they a.re scratching.
Lovell
I do not understand the procedures too well. I mean I went
th.rough the procedures, followed them exactly, but the pho­
tometer left me out to lunch. We tried to get the dope, but
I do not see what they are going to get out of it.
Borman
We did not have mu.ch confidence in that.
We did it exactly
the wa;y it was practiced.
We did practice it in the simu.la.­
tor and it is recorded on voice tape. They came ba.ck though
and said that TM did not make much sense to them, and I
think that is probably right. Voice tape recorder usage,
by and la.rge this wa.s another experiment that was well han­
dled, preflight a.nd during flight.
We admit that we spent
a l ot of time on this one 8Jld with all the visu.a.l a.cuity
data they got a.head of time, and were briefed by the princi­
pa.l experimenters ma.ny, many times.
I thought that it was
handled a.s well as it could be handled.
The site in Aus­
tralia. We were over Australia