John Company

Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

NASA-UAP-D017 · page 213 of 290

Page 213 of 290 of NASA-UAP-D017

Text

This text came with the file. It may have mistakes. When the text and the image disagree, the image is right.

205
White
McDivitt
White
McDivitt
White
and I think we might have taken some stills ,
but I'm not sure.
I hope it came out.
Yes , it was r eally spectacular! So we could
just about make our own stars when we wanted to.
Is that all on celestial?
That ' s all I can think of, Jim.
I couldn't see the zodiacal lights.
I couldn't
see the r~genschein and I could not see the burst
of zodj acal lights that you get just as the sun
sets.
Go ahead , Ed.
Okay.
I saw one during the last few sunrises .
I watched the sun very carefully.
trom the time
it first started to come up till it finally
popped up , I was looking all the time for that
shoot of light that 's supposed to come up just
before the sun pops up.
Well , I could never
see that .
All I could see was the glow as it
came up and a very rapid rise as the sun did come
up.
There 's something that I did see that was
quite interesting t o me .
Several minutes before
the sun came up there would be a shaft of light
that would shoot up, and I
watched it on two