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This 1966 NASA file collects memoranda by Jocelyn R. Gill of the Manned Flight Experiments Office, plus related correspondence, on the scientific experiments of the Gemini IX mission. Status reports from March and June 1966 describe the zodiacal light, airglow, micrometeorite and synoptic photography experiments, and an experiments debriefing held June 16. The file also contains a congratulatory telegram to astronauts Stafford and Cernan and a Naval Research Laboratory letter on the S-9 cosmic ray experiment. It reports no unidentified objects.
From the source:Release of 2026-06-12 Incident: June 3-6, 1966, Low Earth Orbit. Gemini IX (renamed Gemini IX-A) was the seventh crewed flight of the Gemini series, launched on June 3, 1966. The mission’s primary objectives included a spacewalk and multiple scientific and medical experiments. This document, dated June 16, 1966, is a transcript of a NASA debriefing of astronauts Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan. Pages 2-5 of this document contain the astronauts’ accounts of their observations of “flashing lights” and “sparkles” during the mission.
2 NRL LABSTRACTS USRL - continued As a part of NRL, the new division's work will remain essentially unchanged. Its mission, now incorporated into the mission of NRL, is to conduct research and development furthering the science of underwater sound measurement, to provide to other naval activities the resulting scientific knowledge, new or improved t e c h n i q u e s , and standardized instrumentation, and to provide facilities and ser vices for the accurate calibration of standard in strumentation and the wibiased determination of performance characteristics of development, pro totype, or operational underwater sound devices used by the Naval Establishment. Several of NRL's key personnel, including Capt T. B. Owen, the Director, and Dr. C. E. Cleeton, the Associate Director of Research for Electronics, have visited tbe facility to arrange for the transition. The 10. 5 acres of LabOratory ground occupied by USRD are located alongside Lake Gem Mary, one mile south of the city limits of Orlando. It has a personnel complement of 98 people: 97 civilian and 1 military. The Laboratory extends a hearty "Welcome AbOard" to its new staff members and looks forward to publication of articles about the new division. CONTRACT SIGNED - continued for one additional year. Significant provisions con cerning promotion, s c he du ling of annual leave, hours of work, and a grievance procedure with pro visions for advisory arbitration, are among the seventeen articles included in the agreement. This is the second agreement covering Labora tory employees negotiated within the framework of the F e d e r al Employee-Management Cooperation Program as set forth in Executive Order 10988. The first agreement, covering all wigraded non supervisory employees at the Washington complex of NRL, became effective on December 21, 1964. Re-negotiation of the latter agreement is expected to begin in the early fall of this year. SAVINGS BOND CAMPAIGN - continued June. He said that the additional month is needed to assure that every civilian and military employee of the Federal Government throughout the world is given an opportunity to sign up for regular pur chases of Savings Bonds through the Payroll Savings Plan. The Postmaster General expressed confidence that the campaign goal of 75 percent participation by Federal employees will be achieved. So far in NRL' s Savi.ngs Bond Campaign 94 people have i n c r ea s e d their Bond allotments, and 157 people have signed up for Bond deductions, making a total of 1,628 Bond savers. The Laboratory's percentage of participation is now over 50. This extra month affords you the ex c e 11 en t opportunity of signing up for Bonds. Why not jump on the "Bond Wagon" today? Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Dr. Richard Tousey, Head of the Rocket Spec troscopy Br an c h, Atmosphere and Astrophysics Division, was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at the Academy's 186th Annual Meeting held May 11 in Boston, Mass. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, was founded in Boston in 1780 by John Adams and other revolutionary leaders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Among the prominent members of the past have been George Washington, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Horace Mann, Sir Winston Churchill, and John F. Kennedy. Dr. Tousey, who is a member of over a dozen major scientific and professional societies, is now a Fellow in four of them. Previously he had been elected Fellow by the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of America, and the American Geophysical Union. Moreover, Dr. Tousey's work here has earned him numerous special honors and awards, including the Navy Award for Distinguished Achievement in Science (1963), the Henry Draper Medal of the National Academy of Sciences (1963), and the Frederic Ives Medal of the Optical Society of America (1960) . Scrap Material Wasn't Scrapped The following items were evidently mistaken for scrap material and were picked up in Building 49. The equipment should be returned so that formal transfer procedures may be followed. •Pulse Generator, H.P . Mod. 212A, Ser . 549, P.A. 243091 • Pulse Generator, H.P. Mod. 212A, Ser. 4496, P.A. 248572 • Flow Meter,Burton,Mod. 200, Ser. 200-6069, P .A. 245683
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