Gemini 9 Debriefing, 1966

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Manned Flight Experiments Office
SM/Manned Flight Experiments Office
DATE: J une 6, 1966
!TED STATES GOVERNMEN
Memorandum
SM/Director,
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Sci entific Experiments carried out oh Gemini IX
SUBJECT:
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The Gemini IX mission carried the following OSSA experiments :
S-10 Agena Micrometeorite Collection
S-11 Airglow Horizon Photography
S-12 Gemini Micrometeorite Collection
In spi te of a slight flurry last Friday night to t brow in additional
experiments as a possible backup in the event of failure of the .ATDA,
no new experiments were introduced .
Thi s was a consequence of the
decisi on to i ntroduce no additional film packs which could have
acconnnodated some moreexperimental activity. (Ref. TWX to Dr .
John Clark re S-28 support for Gemini IX, 5/27/66 and TWX to 4
experimenters and their directors re S-5, S-6, S-28 and S-29, 5/31/66) .
Nonetheless, i t is anticipated that some photographs will have been
taken for S-5 and S-6 (Synoptic Photography) on the operational film
carri ed- even though this experiment was not scheduled for Gemini IX.
As of Sunday, June 5th at ll: 30 e . d .t . telephone contact with
Norman Foster ' s office indicated the following on experiments .
{Talked with Ed Zeitler, MSC both Saturday and Sunday.
He i s the
editor on the experiments status report) .
The efforts to di slodge the shroud from the .ATDA, (called by
Tom Stafford as "an angry alligator, ") were in vain so docking with
the ATDA was scrubbed from the mission.
At this point there was
some concern over the fuel supply and a thought that i t might not be
possible to carry out all the experiments .
The status of sci entific
experimental activity is given below.
1 .
S-10, Agena Micrometeorite Collecti on, Dr . C. Hemenway, Dudley
Observatory
The S-10 was carried on the .ATDA, but it was impossi ble to get
near i t or to retrieve i t .
The S-10 was also carri ed on the Agena
and there was no activity with it ei ther .
The S-10 i s still on the
.ATDA and conceivably could be retrieved on a later mi ssi on.
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