Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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they only had two l ights on there.
We had four lights
on and I will be darned if I will try to judge distance
by four lights or fifty lights. You have got to have
illumination or you have to have a stable vehicle.
Lovell
You have to have something that illuminates the vehicle,
not a light that flashes because you cannot tell from a
flashing light.
Borman
Especially on vehicles rotating. I do not think that i t is
possible to control them.
You have to have a controlled
vehicle before you can judge distance from it, as far
as I am concerned. The GO/NO GO, 17-1 TR were no
problem.
We ran through the platform-off post station­
keeping checklist just the way it is listed.
Lovell
Yes, that is where we caught most of the things.
Borman
That is where we caught most of the things like putting
the D-ring away and the drogue pins and so on.
Only one
time in flight did we require attitude control fuel to
change attitude for critical delay time playback. There
was no problem.
Communications, as always, were superior.
The D-4/D-7 Void Measurement was again no problem;
just lined up on the black and ran for t wo minutes.
Purging of the fuel cells. This is the first of a long-­