Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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the constellation and be able to find the name
of the star after we got back here to the ground.
But I do think that the star training we had
was worth every minute of it .
Yes, I'd go back some more, too.
I'd go back
to the planetarium some more.
That's right . It 's one of the things that you
really have to keep at all the time, because you
can never go out at night and look at all the
stars in the sky.
You can only see a certain
restricted area, and it takes a lot of looking
to see the whole sky.
By the time you look
long enough to see the whole sky,it 's six months
since you've seen certain stars, unless you
want to stay up all night.
Spacecraft orientation. I think the little devices
they ginned up at the Morehead Planetarium are
real good in this respect. You can sit there and
they can simulate your orbit. They can put you
up in the barber chair and ;you look out and see
approximately the number of stars you can see
out the spacecraft, and I thought that's about
what I could see out of the spacecraft.
When I