Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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O' Keefe - _Yes, he gave me a note.
I was supposed to pass that
note down to the Manned Spacecraft Center; I don't think I did.
I think it's my fault.
(Ed. copies were forwarded to MSC~)
Roman - What is this you are referring to?
O'Keefe - There is a very strong magnetic anomaly in this region,
and this is where ...
Dunkelman - I think the fact that Schirra had not heard of this makes
the observation even better scientifically.
Schirra - Hmm.
O'Keefe
Quite exciting about this thing, but exactly ·what region
is Cdr . Schirra talking about? ... He's talking about the South · Atl anti c
- and the South Atlantic was in sunlight.
This is probably as close
to it as we could get to be in darkness.
Schirra - I think what happened is I looked out as I was drifting
and this happened to be in the right attitude to see this, which
probably meant that I was looking toward the North although I can ' t
confirm this .
Cameron - You said something about you would judge that the width
was about a fourth of your window.
Schirra - Yes.
Cameron - Can you say how far - anything about how high it was
from the horizon?
Schirra - I was surprised when I saw what I thought were city lights
and they turned out to be stars below this thing.
As a result, I
was confused in the sense that I wasn't then looking for yardsticks.