Gemini 9 Debriefing, 1966

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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.) The first exposure was started at GET 12 hrs and closed at 17 hrs.

S-5 and S-6; Synoptic Photography, Dr. Paul Lowman Jr. and K. Nagler.

There is no word on how many pictures have been taken. The newspapers made reference to a picture of Baja California, but 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 "yes."

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-11 as well as S-5 and S-6. Many more pictures for the successive volumes of the Earth Atlas.

Jocelyn R. G,ll
Manned Flight Experiments Office