Gemini 9 Debriefing, 1966

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GSA P'PMR (,t CFR) t01-11.f.
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Memorandum
TO
SM/ DirectoJ , ~~
DATE: June 21 , 1966
Manned Flik-'t'1~ periments Office
FROM
SM/Jocelyn R. Gill
SUBJECT: Report on Gemini 9
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Gemini 9 -
n~e,ct:xon on our experimen
was impressive .
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S-1 -
Zodi~al Light Experiment (N
) -
This was done inside
the capsule .
Pictures were taken of the zod~cal light and
the Milky Way .
Guiding was quite good even for the 30 second
sweep .
Tri- x film was used , and best pictures yet of the
zodi~cal light .
S-11 -
Airglow Horizon Photographic Experiment (Koomf n) ­
Naval Research Laboratory -
About 40 us~ble pictures of
the airglow with a split field picture were obtained .
Some
of the same star field were shown in S-1 .
Guiding was very
good even though Cernan had to take pictures in a very
awkward position .
S-12 - Micrometeorite Collection (Hemenway) -
Showed several
pictures which were greatly magnified - enlargement of the
micrometeorite experiment .
Only a small portion of the
exposed surface has been analyzed .
Nevertheless 9 important
ones are recorded on these films .
Hemenway is investigating
possible contamination between experiments before sending
individual portions to guest experimenters .
Biological Experiments - Results of these come .out faster .
Part A: 3 swabs were taken inside of spacecraft .
Preflight were dirty .
Postflight : Some areas were sterile .
Part B: Penicillium and T- 4 bactericidal specimens survived
the spaceflight .
Two other specimens did not .
30 day report
may have more results but micrometeorite experiment will
take some time .
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