Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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like it -was below and in the air glow.
It looked like it was in the air glow to you? When
I saw it, it definitely wasn't in the air glow. It
was a lot closer to me.
Of course, it started on your side and you talked
about it for
3" • or
4 minutes or so.
Then as
we drifted around, it went over, I guess, to my
side. It was irregular shaped and it was out
toward the air glow layer.
Well, the second time it was a lot less bright.
Are we going to talk about the air glow layer now?
Okay.
We' re going to talk about the air glow layer,
but it comes under "horizon". Let's talk about
that under "horizon".
Okay.
Do we have any other celestial observations? The
fire flies that we had around the spacecraft con­
tinua.lly--Sometimes you'd be able to look out and only
see one, and you couldn't see them too well at all
at times.
You could see them in the daylight occa­
sionally, but I don't think you could ever see them
at night. But the place where you could really see
them was at sunrise and sundown, because here you
had a black background of the sky a.nd you had the
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