Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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it looked like it was a black paint smear, such
as if you Id take a piece of v:hite linoleum
and a black rubber soled shoe and made a mark
on the linoleum. It had that kind of consistency.
It was absolutely opaque .
Just as black as it
could be .
Yes, I could tell .
When i hit it I could see
from the outside that it turned white .
It tu~ned black from the inside.
From the outside it was white.
From the inside it was black. When I got the
thing turned aro--.md a different way with the
sun on it , it was perfectly clear as if you
had taken the coating off, and what I ;.•as
seeing was through a perfectly clear surface. So ,
I don ' t know really whether the thing was black,
that you placed something on the window that
would make it blac~ or whether you ' d taken
something off that was very white , very thin .
I smeared the film that was on your window.
I 'm
quite confident that is what happened.
I looked at our spacecraft windows after they
got it onboard, and I could still see that
little hunk of window.
It looks to me like wh•1t