Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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that the weather would be so __ that you wouldn't see any of this but you could see little bumps along in the twilight glow after the sunset and this shows up in some of our pictures. If you can see these little bumps along. Do you have copies of those up here?

Not up here. I saw some that were first run yesterday down at the Cape.

We had a first look at these out at Grand Turk. I think the copies we got were not the best in the West. They seem to be a little rough. They had a lot of specs on them and I'm looking forward to getting back down there and going over them again. But you could see some of these. You could see a little bump out here, there would be a little discontinuity.

__ angle or altitude__ (question, partially inaudible)...?

No. They were in the lower part of the light bend so I assume that they were weather build-ups.

What did you estimate the height of the atmosphere to be under daytime conditions? In fact, this angle of the horizon business?

Well, estimates on the angle, saying that this was some 6 to 8 degrees wide, up to this layer for instance was about 6 to 8 degrees wide and it was maybe a degree and a half or two degrees think. This sort of an estimate of the size of the __ over here. We're about 30 degrees in the window our angle we can't look out and a little less than a quarter, maybe a fifth of this business of--say if you estimate about 6 degrees. When I say about 6 to 8 degrees this is not an accurate protractor type measurement.

Could you use a spacecraft as a protractor?

Well I used the window, just the window area

...(Question, partially inaudible).... from the top of the window from the horizon up to the top of the atmosphere? .................... read it off from the autopilot?