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From: nickw@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nick Watkins)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Gemini 7 (was Re: Differences in appearance between shuttles)
Message-ID: <3449@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 12 Sep 90 15:08:10 GMT
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From article <36974@ut-emx>, by clyde@emx.utexas.edu (Clyde W. Hoover):
> The re-entry capusle is black ...
Many thanks.

> 	2. There are loads of photographs to look at.
There are indeed, but ...

> P.S. Back in 1965, I painted my first Gemini capsule green because of the
> rotten color balance in the pictures of the Gemini 4 space walk that I had
> from Life magazine.  
My copy of "LIFE in Space" & my other books with Gemini pics made it
very difficult to distinguish between blue & black, hence the posting
(And this with the superb printing of said book).

Meanwhile, what are the objects on the side of the reentry module of
Gemini 7, attached to what look like deployable doors ? Are they cameras,
targets, experiments or what ?

Nick
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Dr. Nick Watkins, Space & Plasma Physics Group, School of Mathematical
& Physical Sciences, Univ. of Sussex, Brighton, E.Sussex, BN1 9QH, ENGLAND
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