Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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No.
On the night when we were flying with that
eclipse of the moon,
I
saw
more stars than
I ' ve ever seen in the sky.
Yes, and as a matter of fact, I wouldn ' t doubt
that we could go out here and fly tonight
and see seventh order stars.
I bet we could see lower than that.
That ' s right.
What I ' m leading up to say is
that I don ' t think we could see as many stars i n
orbit as we could flying around in an airplane
at 40 or 45 000 feet .
That ' s exactly my conclusion a.J:so.
You could
see down to the seventh order stars.
Yes, and I think the reason for this is the
coating on the windows, don't you?
I think so.
I felt like there was just a little
shield of what I was really seeing.
If we 'd just gotten that coating off, we'd have
been in great shape.
I also noticed a tremendous difference if I
turned those lights off in the cockpit. It was
just like turning those stars on on the outside,
and I don ' t think we should take those red lights
out.
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