Gemini 9 Debriefing, 1966
NASA-UAP-D022 · page 4 of 78
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Gemini 9 Debriefing - p. 3 Hemenway- About S-10, we feel it is very important to do this because of the length of exposure. Agena 8 would really be worthwhile to get at- * S-1 Zodiacal Light, Ney and Huch and John Lintott (tech. monitor) Astronauts to Ney- We have a message- we did the expt inside... Ney to astronauts- How did you hold (glide) it so well? Ciernan- We felt there would be a problem in holding 30 secs. in EVA. I had practiced leaning on a car and 30 secs. was too much! During EVA - drifting so much... During EVA just maintaining position is our most difficult task... restraining the feet. Stafford- Gene produced so much torque when he stepped out of the S/C, that he rolled me 150 degrees, etc... I don't think we could do it (the expt) outside... Ciernan- We turned out all the lights except 3 red lights inside the S/C. I put the camera again the(?) and slid it against the frame so I could hold it hard against the frame and then Tom went for the (proper) part of the horizon... The pitch was difficult- to sight the horizon over the (nose) and vertically to get the Milky Way on the window. We saw a very bright meteor way, way out (going) from left to right, whitish-green in color. Material was dumped between exposures- lots of water and dirt- we know the volume (mass) to barely an ounce. We took 18 pix, Moon on the last one; then sunrise... 17 were godd... The first picture was taken toward the north. Ney- Would you like a sight? Would give finite-- 15 secs, 30 secs in center (Your) worst holds only represent 1 or 2 degrees...are the null rates for orbital or inertial? How well did you think you held??? and then I'll show you the pictures... Ciernan- Didn't need a handle on the camera- it's on right and down. I feel camera was held real well. Problem was rates were even harder than in S-11... Ciernan- It was still difficult to line up the camera with the black horizon, etc. I concentrated on looking in the right direction. (0.8 deg. in each direction.) Problem- the window is at an odd angle