Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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in the daylight--of course the site was not manned because
of the few passes we'd have to have .
When we were over
Australia we didn't have attitude control .
Lovell
We might menti o.n one thing.
I think with the l ong flight
like we had, if we had the fuel we could have become more
skilled in observing the site and probably have gotten
better results .
Borman
No, we coul d not have on thi s o.ne, because after the 3rd day
the clouds were the factor the whol e t i me.
We had only
3 days to observe that, a.nd everything el se was cl oudy.
Lovell
Okay, it was cloudy, but I suspect that the more passes
over the thing, you woul d get better. But we just did
not have the fuel and the weather was bad.
11, 5 Synoptic terrain (S-5) and weather (s-6) photogra phy
Borman
Synoptic terrain a.nd weather photography.
On unusual
or significant subject matter. Well, it turns out we did
not have any unusual or significant subject matter as far
as I know .
We t ook the sequences and we took a l ot of
it as genera l photography that was not even called up.
Most of the time, it had t o be done in drifting flight.
We were sorry about this , but there was not the fuel
availabl e. The two sequences that wer e called up (where
we were allocated the fuel from the ground) we t ook them.
I
hope they were well done.
We did get some