Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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anything else .
So I was strictly looking, if you could almost
say, I could even be looking straight up, which I know I wasn't.
The stars were equally bright and equally in number almost on
either side of this band.
Dubin - It was about through the middle of the window?
Schirra - That is correct .
I went even as far as to say that it
wasn ' t a third of the window and then I modified this down · to a
fourth, but ~twas more than a fourth and less than a third.
This
means, in any case, that it's approximately ten degrees thick and
this is a very rough estimate.
O'Keefe - It wasn't the Milky Way?
Schirra - No. No,
~ like to look at the Milky Way so I've seen
it enough to say ".no."
O'Keefe - Because you were facing according to your picture to - well ­
no - Sculptor, Fornax - no ­
Roman - The Milky Way in that part of the sky, should have a very
distinct rift down the middle, it wouldn't be brightest to the center
and shading off.
Schi rra - Yes, in fact, if I recall from the way we ran the planetarium,
the Milky Way was almost on my horizon.
~Dubin - How long can you see this by the way?
Schirra - We can do this too, John.
They have the Milky Way· projected
on this chart.
It is a very fine tool, I might add~ particularly when
you want to reconstruct the crime.
Gill - Might be very good practice afterwards for thq
\ pilot to go