Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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Schirra - I don't think they are in this area.
We have to expand
this star chart .
Now if I were yawed around 90 degrees, this star
chart is absolutely worthless because this only goes a plus or
minus 60 degrees .
O' Keefe = I know, I know .. .
Sch i rra = Maybe I could have
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o°Keefe = But, your flight path did go over Aldebaran, Orion ­
the plane of the orbit.
Schirra -
As I recall , and my memory of course, is suffering
from the time span (which has elapsed since the flight on October ~ .5-,.
1962 . )
As I recall, Orion was on the daylight s i de, you see it's . ..
Roman = As I say, I was going to say that Orion was actually very
late = just before dawn - if it were up at all.
Schirra = Physically it was impossible to see - here is the constella­
tion Orion way down here ~ in time, this is on my daylight side .
Roman = I would think that Aldebaran would be much the same problem.
Cameron = Just the same thing .
Schirra = It is right in this same family, of course.
Roman = What time of night was this?
Can you give me any idea
of the distance between sunlight and sunset?
Schirra = That vs why I am perfectly convinced that I could not
possibly see anything associated with the constellation Orion or
Aldebaran .
With this star chart, Nancy, what we do is have a
time margin .
(Looking at the chart .)
Now Orion down here is
actually in my local daylight .
It just was impossible for me to
see it at this point way back here .
It was occluded frank ly by the