John Company

Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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But the other business of acquiri.ng,is very difficult, .
Particularly with the reticle set.
11.8
Landmark Contrast
Borman
We did one of these with the D- 5 photometer.
We knew it
was bad, but we put the calibration needle in the full "up"
position, told the experimenter that we were doin8 this
and took the data. Nowt they will have to check it to
see how it worked.
Lovell
We did :just one,
Borman
We had an equipment malfunction. Right.
No sense talking
about it anymore.
Spacecraft control was
no problem.
We accomplished all the meoha.nios of doing
it, but unfortunately the equipment we knew was mal funo­
tioning before we did it. Right?
Lovell
Right you are.