Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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That's right .
Initially you saw the sun out there and you saw
this thing looking like it was flashing.
Once
it got above the air glow, the planet did not
flicker anymore. It was perfectly bright .
Very hright .
When we saw that thing that looked like the
booster, it was very low on the horizon. It
always popped out .
Remember how that bright
light used to pop out? You'd have t he light
sky and all of a sudden t here 'd be a bright
light there .
\Te saw that planet come up so many t imes during
the flight, I feel quite convinced that the
first sighting or two weren't of the planet.
Well, maybe it wasn't.
Actually, I continued to see the blinking on it
after the stars were out .
Wait , let ' s take a look and see which way the
booster would be .
The booster was bel ow us so
it should be going out in front of us l ike mad .
You're looking into the sunset which was behind
us .
The booster shouldn' t have been there.
The
booster should have been out to the fr ont of us .
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