Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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Borman
At 49t53 we got a picture of Houston with the 250 .mm l ens.
I hope it comes out. Okay at 69t40 we did a Perigee Adjust
Maneuver, Delta V 12.4, 16.5 seconds, and came right on the
money, using the stars, no platform. I don't think that
there is any problem at all with the proper stars in .making
a gross adjustment.
Lovell
I think it was an excellent idea to do it without a platform,
it takes two people. One person times and the other person
burns on the star fro.m attitude. Both people check the
attitudes by looking at the star charts and getting the
updates. Then ma.king sure that the s/c is alined right
and the reticle is up to get the accuracy pretty good. After
that, once you get it set in your mind what you are aiming
at, one guy is in the cockpit with the watch or event
timer and clocks it. The other guy bas to look out the
window because you can't go back and forth. If you look
in the cockpit at the watch, you can't adjust to look out
f or the stars. So it takes two people for that. I think
you can do a good job without a platform.
Bor:ma.n
I do too.
Bor:ma.n
There is one thing that was a pain in the neck, and I hope
they get some good out of them, were
UHF and the RF tests.
That was an hour and a half transmitting every five minutes