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Cooper watched John Glenn’s fireflies

NASA, Low Earth Orbit, 1963.

The Mercury Atlas 9 fireflies are beautiful and ordinary at once. The astronaut describes luminous particles around the capsule at sunrise. The wonder is real, but the best explanation is close to the spacecraft.

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I am observing John's fireflies drifting away from me. I can observe them sort of departing from the spacecraft and drifting out to the rear.

Fireflies appear to be white, very whitish, with almost a green like real fireflies.

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