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Mr. A. W. Robinson, Manager Advanced Requirements Planning Operation Missile and Space Division General Electric Company Post Office Box 8555 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19101 Dear Mr. Robinson: With reference to your letter of July 29, thank you very much for the briefing and for your generous offer of the use of your facilities and equipment to look at possible Gemini XI and Gemini XII EVA problems in neutrally bouyant state. I regret that Astronauts Cernan and White will be unable to evaluate your facilities and equipment in the immediate future due to the heavy demands of their assigned tasks. Astronaut Cernan has recently made an underwater evaluation of the problems he encountered on Gemini IX in a tank at Randallstown, Maryland, during a current program being done for the Manned Spacecraft Center by the Environmental Research Associates Company. The EVA portions of the Gemini XI and Gemini XII missions are also being studied by our astronauts and NASA engineers at Randallstown. Perhaps in the near future the schedules of some of our EVA astronauts will permit them to make an evaluation of your neutrally bouyant facilities and equipment. I agree that such an evaluation would be mutually beneficial. The Manned Spacecraft Center is presently procuring a tank for reduced gravity simulation work, which should be in operation prior to the end of this year. An exchange of information on modes of suit operation, methods of ballasting, communications systems, etc., would, I am sure, prove helpful to both our organizations. In this connection, Astronaut Scott Carpenter will visit you in the latter part of September. I understand you have had direct correspondence with him to arrange his visit. He is assisting with equipment requirements on our submergence facility, and I am sure that his vast underwater experience will prove valuable during his forthcoming visit. Sincerely yours, /s/ Robert R. Gilruth Director HLJ /initials/ [Harold Johnson?] WJN /initials/ [Warren North] DKS /initials/ [Deke Slayton] CC: EA/M. A. Faget DA/C. A. Berry
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