Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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Cameron - Was this a patch, or do you think there was a layer
there?
Schirra - It was a layer across my whole visible horizon.
It
wasn 9 t just a blob in other words .
Cameron = And is that the only time you saw it?
Schi rra - That is the only time that I recall ever ha~ing seen it .
At one particular point - Was it at 5 hours 20 minutes (in the
record)?
I don 9 t seem to refer to it too well in here.
Dunkelrnan -
We had to find it.
Schirra = You had to dig it out?
Dunkelman = We had to dig it out from your self-debriefing later .
Roman = Was there any color apparent in this case?
Schirra - I would like to refer to it, Nancy, as a little smog
color , having a little brown in it. Sort of Brownish gray - rathe r
it wasn ' t black or white.
It was definitely toward the brown smog t hing.
I 9m sure you have had the unfortunate privilege of letting down in
Los Angeles and seeing what smog brown is.
Roman = Right .
Schi r r a - This isn 9 t what you would see from the surface of Los
Angeles, but above it when you look into this.
Sort of a dusty
color i n a sense .
If you'd like to use that term .
I don't like t o
use that term because if you have seen a dust cloud you've seen
more solidity to it in your mind at least.
I don't want · to give
you that picture.
Definitely a fog effect rather than seeing
particles .
I think of it that way.