Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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Scientific Debriefing
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of t he window when I first picked it up.
By the time it got up to where
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was may'be 15 degrees higher (1n relation_to me and m:, l.ine •of sight) 1
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suddeacy saw it flashing.
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Bill Armstrong: ~at'a ,.1ust where it would have been. If woul.d have·
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just coming to the horizon.
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John Boynton: ·Was this predominantly ~bove the horizon?
Bill Armstrong: In the first orbit, no.
On the first orbit it is' very-1low~
That is why' he •might not have seen it the initial part of the orbito
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about 20 or 30 minutes thru the1night s~de, it passes through the horizon
and then it goes about 25 or 30 degrees high. It goes· through a fai,rly
large angle change. at first, and the further out it gets of course the
smal.ler 1 the angle .change is. 'l'he second night a:f'tier depl.oyment •Just ·about .,,_
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at sunset 1t start·s up through the .horizon and 'then all the time .during the '
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second night phase it is .above th~ horizon. · Then the third C)ne is· above the
hor.:Lzon all of the·'time.