John Company

Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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No.
I don't think so either. You know, the
thing that did look brighter to me was that
planet right over by the sun.
When the sun set,
that planet would really stand out.
I noticed another thing on the planete, I didn't
notice--which one is in Leo now?
I don ' t know.
It ' s Mars.
Mars is around Leo now, and it
didn ' t look as orange.
To me it looked roughly
the same color as Venus did, and remember I
remarked on that up there, which is a very
interesting thing now.
I presumed that the
color should stay the same.
I didn't notice any difference between it up
there and here on the gTOund.
It didn't have to me the characteristic orange
color that it has when I look at it from down
here. It looks more like a regular old-­
A regular old star, huh?
No, it looked likr the planets, and remember I
remarked on that.
I think you did, now that you mention it.
And we probably went on doing somethi.ng else and
forgot about it. Let ' s talk about the air glow.
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