John Company

Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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The next pass around I called out and
said,
111 see the booster on top at 9 o' clock,
perpendicular to our flight path." I don ' t
think that ,.ias the booster either.
It's kind of academic.
Yes .
The reason that I broughtthe thing back up
again is I wanted to be sure it ' s brought out
that the planets are so clear and so bright,
even far more brighter than they are looking at
them from the ground .
Looking at them up there,
it really is striking the first time you see
them. If we took a l ot of pictures of anything,
i t was a pictl:re of that planet .
Sunrise and sunset .
The sunsets all had the
planet in it .
That ' s right.
That planet has always been there .
Very pretty.
It certainly was .
Okay, I got a call after Ed went t o sleep that
we were going to pass by myr.hnl"r. :.:. u.:-o which
would be north of track, at 7:56.
I wasn't sleeping.
I heard it .
Did you? Okay . Well , I didn't have any fuel to
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