Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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Schirra - I feel that I was looking up at it now in relation to my
local horizon.
Roman - You were actually looking up at it? Have you any idea how high
it was above the apparent horizon at that time?
Schirra - That is where I am in trouble, Nancy, because there · is no
direct repeated knowledge of what this attitude is.
Roman - Well, the other question is ...
Schirra - But I saw a good batch of stars below it which meant that my
axis had to be fairly well above the horizon.
Roman - Any _structure either turbulent or wave-like?
Schirra - No, this was a very soft - we best describe this in clouds
as being a cirrus layer rather than a cumulus layer; a stratus would be
a better term, I think.
Nordberg _- Sort of diffuse?
Roman - I am still not quite sure I have the answer to my question then .
I ' m not a meteorologist.
Schirra - If I were to do it, I'd take a chalk eraser and just' make a
streak across the blackboard, it would be more intense in the cente r
of the eraser and then diffused as I got ­
Roman - But no other structure?
Schirra = No other structure.
Roman - The reason I am asking this is that it sounds as if it might
be related to some other equatorial red airglow which has been· observed
from the ground.
This has a distinct wave structure.
Schirra - I see.
No, I did not see the permanent wave effect or the