The View from Above: The Gemini Visual Acuity Experiments
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NASA astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. took 29 color photographs of Earth with a 70mm camera during the Mercury-Atlas 9 mission in May 1963. From the window of his Faith 7 spacecraft, he reported seeing vehicles on dirt roads and smoke-belching trains.
NASA astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. took 29 color photographs of the Earth with a 70mm camera as he orbited our planet during the Mercury-Atlas 9 mission in May 1963. Cooper’s view from the window of his Faith 7 spacecraft was spectacular, and he reported that he could see vehicles motoring on dirt roads, smoke-belching trains, […]
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