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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.
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.. 2 S -11 : Airglow Horizon Photography, M. Koomen, NRL . No difficulties in the schedule are anticipated. This is the first flight of this experiment and the flight hardware is on schedule . The equipment has passed environmental testing . The experiment is mounted on a movable bracket and is 11 pointed11 by the astronaut . The first briefing of the astronauts (See and Bassett) has been held and another is to be held later in the Morehead Planetarium. The astronauts seemed "reasonably happy" with the experiment according to the principal investigator . S- 12 : Micrometeorite Collection on Gemini S/C : On schedule . No problems reported by the principal investigator . This is the first flight of this experiment , having be en canceled out on GT - 6 . S -28 : Dim Light Pbotograpl¾ L. Dunkelman : This experiment was first carried on Gemini VII and VI -A as "operational procedure . " Af'ter processing by SSSC and M3FEB this month, it is hoped that it will assume full experiment status . It uses cameras already assigned to the s/c and sensitive black and white film, already qualified . Some further briefing will be required, probably at the Planetarium and possibly can be accomplished at the same time as S- l ' s Planetarium briefing . Jocelyn R. Gill
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