Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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McDivitt
White
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sparkles everywhere.
And it looked like almost
a starlit sky, but it just didn't quite look
right to me ; it looked like an artificial star­
lit sky.
It looked like some of these star dis­
plays they have created for us .
And I looked
over at Jim and asked him if he was seeing this
and about the same time I noticed that he had
nothing but dayl ight out his window.
This was
the first time that I had the daylight-dark
experience of one guy looking into pitch black
night and the other guy looking into a complete
daylight window over there.
Jim remarked rather
disgustedly to me, "We are pointed straight at the
ground!" About the same time I realized I was
looking out at the fire flies everybody had seen,
but probably in a much more profuse quantity than
had ever been seen before, because we were getting
all this fuel that was vaporizing into many, many
particles from the booster and a little bit of a
contribution from the spacecraft also.
And we were thrusting, too.
I 'm sure we had all
that junk on it from our launch.
That ' s right .
And the whole area out in front of
my view was just entirely taken up with these
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