Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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Protective glasses.
To tell you the truth the one time
where I was really trying to get onto the Hawaii pass I
took them off.
I did not use them.
And they were in the
way, they were cumbersome and together with the telescope,
it was just too hard to find.
Borman
I used mine, but I did not put them on until right before
Jim was supposed to transmit .
Lovell
Of course, I had them, I had them on and I transmitted
and found out that I could not see anything so I just
pulled them off and started transmitting by going back...
because as I understand it the operator really does not need
them if he i s right next to it .
Borman
The big word on this one as far as the reticl e goes , w~
should go back to that is for the day time you do not want
that green in there. At night time you are going to need
a lighted reticle.
You cannot see the reticle at ni ght.
Lovell
That is right .
So you need a better acquisition device
on the laser, a better, bigger telescope with more light
gathering and clarity of the te.rrain of the target.
I
would imagine PULSE mode would be great for tracking the
thing.
Borman
Yes.
I tracked one at Hawaii very easily.
No problems.
The tracking is a nominal task, there is nothing to it.