Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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back to the planetarium (to reconstruct his flight path.) •..
Schirra - I sure wish I had thought of this a long time ago when
was fresher on this.
Gill - It would fix things in your mind too - you'd be able to see them
again right away to pin them down.
Dubin - How long did you see this?
Schirra - I would not say seconds, I would say minutes,
Nordberg - Did this go away simply because of your progression in
orbit or because of your drifting?
Schirra - I think more because of the drifting, perhaps.
Dubjn - Did you see the stars through it?
Schirra - There again, I didn't have time to track stars through it.
When I say minutes, I don't mean a whole bunch of minutes, I mean
one or two or three minutes.
Dubin - Yes, but do you know whether you saw stars moving relative to
the band?
Schirra - No, they weren't .
It wasn't relative to the band.
That ' s a good question, now that you bring it up.
Dubin - In other words, the stars seemed to stand still.
Schirra - The band and the stars were planted together, much the same
way as you would see the Milky Way in a sense.
That's a very good
point.
O'Keefe - You saw a bunch of things there.
It might have been Aldebar an
or it might have been Antares.
Schirra - I suspect that is what I did see at Antares or Alpheca,
and I think that is in that same spectrum there .
I think rather