John Company

Gemini 9 Debriefing, 1966

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2 .
irglow Horizon Photography.
. Koomen, mt/. No difficulties in t he
schedule are anticipated .
L'his is the first fli ht of this experiment and ,he
flia t hard11are is on sche ule .
l'he equipment. has passed environmental
testing.
rhe exper ent is mounted on a movable bracket and is "pointed"
by the astronaut .
'he first briefing of the astronauts tSEE and ~assett) has been held and
another is to be held later in the o:r·ehe., a rlanetarium.
he astronauts
seemed "reasonably happy" vi.th the experiment accordin~ to the princi al
investigator.
·crometeorite Collection on emini nkx:S/C:
On schedule .
No problems reported by the principal investigator.
his is the
irst flight of this experiment , having been ~
T-6.
cancelled out on
- 28: Dim Light Photography , L . Dunkel.man/.
his expe1·iment was first c.srried
on Gemini VII and VI-A as 11operational procedure . 11
After processiw:1 by SSSC
and
FEB thi s month, it is hoped that it ~~11 assume .fE.b!:_ experiment status .
It uses cameras already assifned to the S/C and sensitive bl ck and white film,
already qualified.
Some further briefing will be required,
robabl at the
Planetarium and possibly can be accomplished at the same t:ime as S-1 1s
Planetarium
brief ·
Jocelyn R. Gill