Gemini 9 Debriefing, 1966

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UNITED STATES GOVER MENT
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MEMORANDUM TO THE FILE
DATE :
May 13 , 1966
FROM
SM/ Manned Flight Experiments Office
SUBJECT : Bulletin on S- 11 experiment for Gemini IX .
The extended timer-on the Maurer camera has failed .
Will
operate the sequence manually .
The command pilot will mark
off the exposures for the pilot and the experiment will
proceed in this fashion .
The principal investigator ,
M. Koomen , NRL , feels that the experiment will come off O. K.
The story is that one of the backup pilots using the flight
model in the simulator and the cable broke .
Then Eugene
Ce r nan , the pilot , took the
11 flight backup " camera and this
broke also .
Needless to say this cable in the came ra is a
ve r y weak link ?
R. T. Seal and M. J . Koomen were at t he Cape
while this was in progress .
In an effort to alleviate this problem for future Gemini
flight s , MSC is trying to develop a timer for the S- 13
experiment which will include the film advance .
They feel
that it is coming along well and that they will accomplish
this .
Jo celyn R. Gill
~anned Flight Experiments Office
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