Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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sun shining on them.
They picked the sun up.
They picked the sun up and reflected the rays.
They
reflect ed t hem just as bright as stars, I thought.
Didn ' t they ! Well, you know the thing that was most
interesting to me was the time I called you and said
the sky was full of stars , and you said it wasn't ,
the sky.
We were pointing down at the earth.
That
was my first exposure to having your window in t he
daylight and mine in the dark.
At this time we had
al l the fuel particles from the fuel from the boosters
spewing out all over, and my whole view out t he win­
dow was just completely full of these reflecting
particles .
They looked kind of like one of the s tar
fi elds we had past off on us as star fields . It
looked kind of like a star field, but it looked
kind of unreal , too. That's exactly what it was.
One of the prettiest things was when. we had a urine
dump at eunset,because we just had mil lions and
millions and millions of these fireflies or part icles
outside .
When you put them all out like that with
the sun shining on them,as we 'd mentioned earlier ·
with the black background, it just l ooked marvelous.
As a matter of fact, we took some movies of them·,.
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