Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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chart, bending it around. (Laughter)
Gill - It's very hard to get oriented.
Dubin - Did you or Glenn or Carpenter see any meteors?
Schirra - No, and we were naturally anxious to see them.
I
understand some little Japanese boy picked up one recently
(Comet Ikey~).
Isn't that right?
That was a comet and we were
looking for mbteors and comets and we never saw any.
Dubin - And so you never saw any?
Schirra - So I suspect that you have to see the meteors from t he
surface of the earth.
Dunkelman - No, again the field of view is too limited.
Schirra -
Again the odds are pretty grim.
You take this lit tle
window and you project it through 180 degrees, and it's pretty
hard to see anything.
That's why I say this lab (lunar module)
is going to be fabulous.
It really will ... That's practically a
bird cage.
Nordberg - How about the brightness of the sky looking as straight
out as possible in the <laytime?
Schirra - I have asked Gordon to go ahead and do this again and
concentrate on it.
I did not, but in my recollection, I did not
see anything in the heavens on the daylight side.
I think what
did this was the reflections off the window with this smoked over
effect which made it even less visible.
This film - back to the
windshield thing - where the smoke is condensed on there - under
the right lighting conditions you can barely see through one of
these things.
That's basically what happened there.