Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965
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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