Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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in the airglow and I did not see it?
Dunkelman - We are trying not t~ ~ (influence your reply).
Schirra - ~laying one (response) against the other is indeed.. a good
way of doing it.
Dunkelman - Another think is that this was indeed brighter.
Schirra - Bu~,_ well below.. . .
Dunke l man - It is _possible that the normal ai rg low was theire
but you didn't see it?
Schirra - It was well below my field of view though.
Dunkelman - But are we sure?
I assumed that it was well below, too,
but . . .
Schirra - Yes.
I saw what amounted to a clear starfield below this . . .
Dunkelman - About how many degrees worth though?
Schirra - I was just trying to think - Well, the window itself ­
I'm just trying to think what I can see degrees-wise-this is ­
Cameron - Thirty degrees .
Schirra - It was roughly thirty _degrees.
O' Keefe - But there is a trap here because that window shapes out
at such a steep angle - that if you attempt to· estimate height by
estimating portions of the window--
Schirra - Oh, no, I wasn't doing that.
All I am trying to say is
that i n the window - included in the window - let~s forget this smog
band, it were stars only, it was below the window which would be the
earth .
There was no horizon and even if I could have been inverted,
we could just say that the window would be this · way.
There was still
no earth vision, nothing of earth I could see, including airglow or