Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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Shoemaker - Any other items on airglow we should take up?
Schirra - We will bring up this other thing I $aw - I guess?
Shoemaker - The cloud (bright area) you saw over Madagascar?
Schirra - Yes.
Dubin - I was wondering on these various effects on the horizon.
. .
You' make some statements about the blue horizon~-the different
colors.
Schirra - What time is this?
Dubin - This is at 06 44 GMT (See blue book, p. 104).
(Now
Report · of, Third U. S, Manned Orbital Flight.)
Schirra ~ This was the beiinning to what Mrs. Cameron has a sketch
of, I believe. .. ,
Cameron - Actually you give two· descriptions here.
I believe
they conflict ,
I assume that one is an expansion of a part of
the other.
Schirra - It is, and as you can see_, it's a time span here where
it obviously is changing as the sun is setting as well.
Not
much in time, but my time was pretty fast in relation to sun ­
sets, I guess.
Dubin - Question is what the heck did you really see?
Schirra - Maybe if I just read it back myself, I can expand
on i t. I'll read it out loud.
How's that?
I guess we can
pick up right at 0604 33 and I say there is a nice interesting
hori zon, which rne~nt that I was captured by it.
The sun was
off to the left and I would say about 40 degrees.
This just