Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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than beat this any further, it's circumbent on us to go to the
planetarium and really nail this down.
All I have to do is just
take this window box we have and just move it around and - ah ha ­
there it is.
• ·ounkeiman - Something we would like to know is the dimming eff ect .
Schirra - Uh huh.
Dunkelman - You say that this patch was quite bright, that's one t hi ng>
and then was it quite bright because it appeared bright or because
there are many, many fewer stars.
This is the question we have to
answer .
Schirra - Right.
You know what went through my mind when · I f inally
realized what I was looking at?
I was livid about the fact that I
had the periscope.
Absolutely livid, because· I would have shot up a
whole roll of film right on that (using uv spectrograph).
(Laughter)
I was fighting for that thing and that's why you can look · through and
I make perisocpe sound like a dirty word.
All through here the wor d
periscope is shortened to four letters practically.
(Laughter)
Shoemaker - Why don't we go on.
Jocelyn, why don't you get together
with Cdr . Schirra and write a conclusion on this.
Schirra ~ We'll set up a rendezvous here.
Shoemaker - I think we have covered quite a few of the remainder· of the
questions partly in discussion.
I would like to go back to' dark ­
adaptation here which is the next question.
You have talked about i t
and let's see whether there are any points that we havenJt • covered .
The
question is would you tell us when you think you were best dark-adapted?
Was there any time during flight when you employed only red light in the