Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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we were, when we went by there, and saw two blinks of the
laser.
We had the photograph in front of us marking where
the laser was located.
We saw Holoman , we saw White Sands
but we never did see the beam except the short flashes .
Lovell
The magnitude of this laser is a lot less than either Frank
or I suspected after our briefings by the experimenters and
by actually
looking at one at Houston.
Obviously this
laser at Houston was a lot shorter and can be very much
magnified.
Borman
Tracking was no problem~
We
acquired one
over Hawaii;
we
were able to
t rack it easily.
The pr oblem is acquisition of the light.
Lovell
The light beam is a lot smaller point than we suspected.
Borman
And then again the big bugaboo in this whole experiment
was weather.
Ascension never got up, we never got ground
equipment at Ascension.We never got really good passes
at White Sands because we were always about 300 mil es South.
And Hawaii was available to us on only 2 passes .
We
acquired the laser on both passes, but were not able to
get the handheld laser on the beam on the ground.
Borman
Okay, how about the field of view?
Lovell
The field of view.
Well, let me t alk about the equipment.
Basically the equipment was fine, except for the telescopes