Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Gemini 7 (was Re: Differences in appearance between shuttles)
Message-ID: <1990Sep14.044919.13801@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <36974@ut-emx> <3449@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 90 04:49:19 GMT

In article <3449@syma.sussex.ac.uk> nickw@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nick Watkins) writes:
>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 ?

Interesting; I'd never noticed those before.  A quick check of references
turns up nothing, although my library is weak on early spaceflight.  If I
had to guess, my guess would be that they were radar transponders for use
by Gemini 6's rendezvous radar.  That would make them unique to Gemini 7,
which explains why they don't show up in models and diagrams, and would
also explain why there were two of them 180 degrees apart.
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