Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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Borman
Could you identify any type of the debris?
Lovell
No, pieces.That is all I could tell.
3.3 Insertion activities
Lovell
We followed the regular procedure.
Borman
We did not have s;ny problem with safing our switches.
No problem.
I did not even stow my D-ring at insertion.
I
was too busy trying to stay on the booster, and I did not
get it stowed for the first orbit,I guess,or half an orbit.
Lovell
What we planned on doing was getting pictures of the D-ring.
I got the br&cket up at staging, and I actually had a minute
after guidance initiate to reach back there and get the
bracket and stick it up. It worked out very nicely before
the g's started building up again on second stage. The
bracket was up and in place s;nd no problem at all. Then at
SECO, I went around to pick up the camera, because we had
the camera. stowed where the Agena control bq..x ie l ~oated.,
I
managed to get the camera up, and it was already plugged
into the electric&l wire. ill I had to do was turn the
auxiliary switch on, put it on the bracket, and push the
button, and it started taking pictures. Just about that
time, Frank mentioned be was going to start thrusting pretty
soon so I had to go back and punch off the spacecraft. Then
I read up address 72.
So, I hope the pictures come out.