Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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and you could see what you needed on the chart.
Schirra - Now this could be practiced in a planetarium.
O'Keefe - There are plenty of fluorescent inks.
Schirra - This star chart thing was a real problem even to get it
to the degree of refinement that I ~ad.
Gill - It has a white background now?
Schirra - We had to take the surface and sand it in a sens e to ge t it
non - reflecting, because that was a problem.
Dunkelmari - I want to caution you on that ultra violet light, though .
It has to be very carefully designed, because if just a wee bit
of
3615 leaks out of it; your eyeballs fluoresce.
It must be
carefully done.
Schirra - I've become very interested in this as a problem in that
on the Apollo mission, where you will need to find particular stars,
we should have some kind of star map that you can see without
blinding yourself.
Those fingertips to me were awfully bright.
Roman - You can ' t turn it down?
Schirra - No.
Gill - You must have been well dark - adapted?
Schirra - Yes, that's right .
I feel very strongly about this
dark - adaptation, by the way.
I have felt this way about this ever
since I have been involved with this.
As a night carrier-pilot, it
was always a problem as you know.
We would sit in the ready room
with red lights on and red goggles on and we · then would go roaring up
to flight deck and there would always be sbmebody there with a white
light to shine right in your face .