Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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little par t icles , and this was at sunset .
As the
flight progressed, each time we had a particle or
a group of particles such as a urine dump r ight
at sunset or sunrise, the sun would pick these
particles up and they would act just like littl e
magnifying glasses and make very bright spots.
This is exactly what happened.
Did you ever see
that then? I think you were more in the daylight
side.
No.
I was on the daylight side.
I didn't see
what you were talking about.
It was really something.
The whole sky within my
view was covered with these little particles- ­
thousands of them.
There was obviously a great
deal of that stuff in the air all around.
As soon as we got turned around I could see trat t he
lights were flashing on the booster, and Ed saw
them , too. It was pretty apparent .
I call ed out
r i ght away to the gruund that the lights were
working.
I don't know if they understood what I
was talking about or not.
I also called out
shortly after we came off the booster and we saw
it,that it didn't look like we were going to be
able to touch it .. because of the high rotational