Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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this was very similar. You do the same thing there and I had no--there was
no problem with the eyes. The light though, it was very noticeable. The
light was a very brilliant clear, white light and what it looked like coming
in the window and the way it looked on the suit--the best thing I could
relate it to were the arc lights, the brilliant search light arc lights that
they have down at the Cape that are out on the bad at night. Its that type
brilliant white light coming in--very bright. And it was warm enough that
I remember commenting, I put it on the tape I believe at one time that riding
along the sun was coming in and it was over on my right arm and I commented
about my right arm getting appreciably warmer than the left when the sun was
on it. It was a very intense light but as it came in the window and was
on your arm here thats just what it looked like. It looked like being on the
pad at night with these real bright search lights on. Same type light, it
wasn't any of the orange-ish yellowish light.

....(Inaudible)........ in size from the UV?

Oh, yes.

This is the difference.

Any unanticipated celestial features?

The comets I--to get back to comes here a minute--I guess we didn't
completely cover that one. See any comets? No. Not at all. When the sun
goes down its a--well this was a very brilliant brilliant thing and the light
was spread out much more in a much broader band out toward the horizons than
I had anticipated. I had thought--I don't know why, no one had ever briefed
me on this particularly--I thought the sun down. It would be a little bit of
light right on the ........ and bang, thats it. There are nothing but stars