Gemini 9 Debriefing, 1966

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Memorandum
TO
SM/Director, Manned Flight Experiments Office
DATE: March 7, 1966
FROM
SM/Jocelyn R. Gill
SUBJECT:
Status of Scientific (OSSA) Experiments on Gemini IX
The following scientific experiments are scheduled for Gemini IX:
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Zodiacal Light Photography; S-10, Micrometeorite Collection on Agena;
S-11, Airglow Horizon Pbbtography; S-12, Micrometeorite Collection on
Gemini, related to S-10; and Dim Light Photography being presented to
SSSC as S-28 on Friday, March 4, 1966 .
(L. Dunkelman, GSFC) .
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Zodiacal Light Photography, E. Ney, Univ. of Minnesota.
Astronaut briefing, Ney reports that one briefing has been held in
Houston and another will be scheduled for the Planetarium. Elliott See,
Charles Bassett and James Lovell were present for the first briefing:
Tom Stafford was not .
Under the circumstances, it is likely that the
briefing will have to be repeated ,
Equipment, The camera equipment is now at the Cape .
Documentation has
presented some problems, mainly the insistence on a new serial number
for the camera since it now has a handle on it .
The handle is mounted
with boles on the camera .
Tri-X film will be used with and without the
window.
With hatch open and using the spacecraft as an occulting disk,
the astronaut will place himself in the shadow of the s/c and see how
far out he can trace the extension of the solar corona.
He will also
take 4 pictures of the airglow and a picture of the Milky Way .
The principal investigator commented that he was very pleased with the
enthusiastic reception from See and Bassett for the equipment and
experiment .
They have been the most interested in this experiment of all
the astronauts who have been associated with it .
Since Tom Stafford bas
been very cooperative in the experimental program, I personally have
confidence that he will pick up where See and Bassett have left off, and
that the experiment can go off as planned.
S-10:
Micrometeorite Collection on Agena.
It employs the same bracket as S-12 .
This modus operandi has cost more
than a new design and has given much trouble .
GSI (government service
inspection) has been a problem since i t was not written into the contract .
The problem is with the fairing with the handle in the open position .
Lubrication bas also been a problem since the contractor has applied it
in 11glops 11 instead of following instructions .
The experiment is all ready,
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so far as equipment is concerned.
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