Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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Schirra - Correct, that's when I came into it.
O'Keefe - What was the height of the layers at this time ­
66 kilometers, is that right?
Schirra - Right, that's what I was saying.
I hope we can
hold Mercury meaning that I'd like to see it· go through this
and I did not know that I could, but obviously I proved that
I could; I did.
This was quite a surprise.
Didn~t you say,
Jocelyn, that there aren't many people that have seen Mercury
sets?
Gill - Very true .
Mercury, (the planet) · period .
Very f ew
people know that it exists.
O'Keefe - Can I point out that you used the word· airglow just
in general terms, a faint, glowing light seen· from the· atmosphere
without your - What you called the airglow is not what is
technically know as the airglow.
Schirra - Yes, any time we use airglow I don't use it as we
professionally talk about airglow.
I was using it merely as
an escape clause.
Dunkelman - There is one other point there.
One isn't sure
just in what plane these phenomena took place .
They may have
been ahead or behind this plane (of the spacecraft).
We have
to think of this ... The 66 kilometers might indeed be reflected
as something that had been before this point, you see.
Nordberg -
(Comment inaudible).
Schirra ~ My local vertical would be this hand as I show it
and, of course, 40 degrees to the left where the sun and