John Company

Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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pictures over Brazil that have never been gotten before.
They were not called up. We took them with the IR color
shifted .f i l m.
We got some pictures of Mexi co that
were not called up.
Lovel l
We ·got a good sequence over North Africa.
Borman
We got several good sequences over North Africa..
Lovell
But I am sure tha.t they have been used before.
Borman
We al so took a seque.nce al ong the southern coast from
New Orleans through Fl ori da using color shifted IR t o
evaluate the f ilm more than anythi ng el se.
I hope this
comes in handy.
We got some shots of the island chai ns
off Florida, to see if they can determine any effect from
the hurri cane that went through, Betsy.
Lovell
As a matter of f act, we got a strip sequence of Cuba too .
Borman
Al l these are target s of opportunity done without atti tude
control, but they were all targets that were listed before
f l ight. We got the mouth of the Amazon, and I think that
i s the first time t hat has been photographed.
Now on the S-6 the weather photography we tried in
the l ast pa.ss to ta.ke a successive revol ution picture of
weather devel opment.
Ve got one good shot over the
Andee. We al so got some good shots of wave cl ouds over
the Andes
during the l atter part of the flight.
We
l ooked for hurricane or tropical storm Alice in the