Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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would prove that the stars well could be seen going through the
sam ,, traverse.
This thing I saw - let's just call it the smog· belt ­
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on this southern pass, to go back and recap the sensation that
brought this to mind which is not brought out here other than the
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fact that I can identify what I saw.
I was coming over a land area.
(I think I better take a second and break out my orbital map which
I have here.)
O'Keefe - If you have the tape, we might replay that.
Schirra
This would be better because some of the nine hours
there, I have not identified carefully enough, .and I should- have,
by going back over the tape and these areas of interest - I think we
should listen to the original tape again.
Let's get down to· where
we were.
Cameron - Larry (Dunkelrnan) has listened to it at the Cape, I think.
Dunkelman - Did you see wh~t I call normal airglow at night?
That is the soft white band.
Schirra - Yes, I did.
Dunkelman - All right, yes, that's important because I think ' late r it
will help.
Cameron - Was that the thing you saw?
Schirra - This is distinctly different and this, I think, we identified
in our earlier discussion (speaking of the use of the term airglow).
Dunkelman - Fine.
Schirra - I had moonlight as well, but I could definitely see this faint
white effect.