Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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We don't like to let things go on without knowing at what they are;
and you explore them pretty thoroughly, maybe with limited know­
ledge, but at least you try to get it down.
I have been fighting
like mad to get this continuous tape recording .
This was invaluable
to get answers just like Larry and I and 1rs . Cameron went back and
traced out
some of this like the smog layer.
I would have
remembered this, but I probably couldn ' t have tol d you when I s aw
it without referring back to this continuous tape .
This is some ­
thing we are not getting .
O' Keefe - It es quite a fascinating thing to l i sten to t hese tape
recordings; undergoing this is a tremendous experience .
You can
hear what the person is -
I think that is a debt to humanity
that it ought to be done.
Schirra - I ' ve been fighting for it all along .
At least, we ought
to be able tp store £or a period of time and then dump it in fast
time and then retape .
Dunkelman - And with your flight we actually see the be ginning of
an interesting turn of events .
In the past, people on the ground ­
I think we had ...
S ch i r r a - Sure .
Dunkelman - Would tell the astronaut what to look for - now in your
case, when you saw this brownish smog thing - here ' s a case where
you could have said to the ground, "now, you lo.ok" now, it seem~-d
bright enough, so if there were any people on the ground -
Schirra - Unfortunately, I ' d left my last point of contact which was