Mercury Atlas 7, May 24, 1962
NASA-UAP-D013 · NASA · May 24, 1962 · audio · 1:48 · Release 2
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During the fourth crewed spaceflight and second orbital flight of Project Mercury, Mercury-Atlas 7 (MA-7), Aurora 7 pilot Scott Carpenter describes white particles in view that appear to move at “random” and “look exactly like snowflakes.” He describes these phenomena as reflective, and that some seemed to move faster than the Aurora 7 spacecraft.
Transcript
speaker 1I have some more of the white particles in view below the capsule.
speaker 1They appear to be traveling exactly my speed. There is one drifting off.
speaker 1Uh, it's going faster than I am, as a matter of fact.
speaker 2Roger, understand.
speaker 1I haven't seen the great numbers of these particles, but I've seen uh a few of them. Their motion is random. They look exactly like snowflakes to me.
speaker 2Roger, have you uh tried uh [unintelligible 00:45]
speaker 1Negative. Let me uh get within scanner limits first.
speaker 2Say again.
speaker 1I must adjust my attitude uh to within scanner limits first.
speaker 2Roger.
silence 01:03-01:31
speaker 1There were some more of those uh little particles. They definitely look like snowflakes this time.
speaker 2Roger, understand. Your particles look like definite snowflakes.
speaker 1Roger.
The audio quality is fair with some background static and typical radio transmission noise.
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