Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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Schirra - And the rare occasions that I've had the timing for this.
O'Keefe - There is a nice Delta Flight from Washington down to
Houston.
The thing goes exactly toward the sun - you can't miss it,
Cameron - You'll have to go to the cockpit.
Schirra -
Hmm - You have to make the Delta Flight, in this par t i cu­
lar case, from Dallas to Los Angeles.
I passed Albuquerque.
Shoemaker - This peculiar thing you saw over Afri ca - maybe you could
tell us about it.
Schi rra - That , as I have said, was my biggest surprise.
I
talked to most of you at great length about things we would hope
to see or expect to see.
This I had no prior knowledge of and I
bas i cally can say that I was "sucked" in and originally called thi s
airglow, if you recall.
I guess it is best to refer back to the record
again .
This was S hours and 20 minutes.
Cameron - That's the time I got from you.
The only thing I
notice from the script was that you said Glenn was asking you when
you were passing over California if you had seen what the airglow
was .
Then you said something about you were surprised at how high
it was .
Schirra - This was the same phenomena.
I had come back from there,
think, isn't that correct? Let's see .
Dubin - The Indian Ocean.
O' Keefe - David Stern at Goddard predicted that you would see
something very unusual in this flight before you went up .
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Schirra - Really?
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