Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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No. 1) i t did not have as much l ight gathering as was
required for thi s particul ar equipment. It should have
a larger magni f i cati on. 2) It had a green f ilt er over it
whi ch was supposed to enhance picking up the beam, but
al l it di d was fade out everything.
You could not see
terrain features a.nd you needed to see ·terrain features
t o find out where that beam was located .
Borman
Yes. to know where the beam was.
Lovel l
You coul d l ook out a.nd .. ..we had photographs of the area
where the beam shoul d be coming from.
And we coul d acquire
i t by our naked eye by just looki.ng out and seeing i t.
But.as soon as you went to the telescope of the laser,
everything faded out to this green color. Unl ess you
just happened to pi ck up the beam you're l ost and I never
was abl e to pick up the beam thru the t el escope .
The
filter was just too stro.ng.
I much prefer to have a c lear
view.
So I coul d pick out the terrain features . The
reticle of course ....
Borman
Of course. we knew that was shot before we took off.
Lovell
We never had a good check of this thi.ng thought at night,
and I wish we had had a good night pass over something,
but we never did.
Because I feel that we probably could
have probably picked up the beam a l ot better at night.