Gemini 9 Debriefing, 1966

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S-11, Airglow Horizon Photograpby, M. Koomen, Naval Research
Laboratory
The astronauts made 3 night passes on this experiment and reported
bno problemshso it is assumed that the experiment went off as planned.
They may be able to devote 1 more night pass to it during the mission .
They are still planning the 2-1/2 hour EVA.
At the start of the
experiments they had 50 lbs . of fuel left and at the end, so it is
reported, they still had 50 lbs ! !
(GET 27 hrs, 29 hrs, 31 hrs for
S -ll).
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S-12, Gemini Micrometeorite Collection, Dr. C. Hemenway, Dudley
Observatory
The collection box was activated and had five hrs~ exposure before
closing it so jets could be freely used.
The decision was made to
reactivate it during the astronauts 10 hr . sleep period. It was
closed again and retrieved by Cernan during his space walk.
So S-12
collection box is being returned in the Gemini IX capsule .
(The
experimenter was asked whether it would be safe to try a second
exposure and asked whether the astronauts could recall whether the
closing cycle on the box had taken about 30 secs .
They apparently
could not hear it and so could not make this determination. )
* (GET 12 to 17 hrs . )
S-5 and S-6, Synoptic PhotograJ?hl, Dr . Paul Lowman and K. Nagler
There is no word on how many pictures have been taken .
The
newspapers have made reference to a picture of Baja California, and
since there was a good deal of operational film aboard, it is expected
that there may be quite a few .
Cernan during EVA was asked whether
he had the Hasselblad camera outside and the reply was
11yes , 11
In
talking with Dr. Lowman I learned that this is probably the wide -angle
(90 deg . ) Hasselblad and may very well produce some spectacular pictures .
From the standpoint of our experiments this seems to be a good mission.
We should have results from S-12 and S-ll as well as S-5 and S-6 .
Many more pictures for the successive volumes of the Earth Atlas .
~a.~ 'R. ~
Jocelyn R. Gill
Manned Flight Experiments Office