Gemini 4 widened the sky around McDivitt

This is the Gemini 4 mission operation report and science debriefing in which McDivitt and White discuss airglow, meteors, particles they called snowflakes, zodiacal light, and planets, with attached Gemini 5 press clippings about Cooper and Conrad tracking Minuteman missiles. All this surrounding detail does not erase McDivitt's famous sighting, but it shows how much normal visual activity there is in orbit, which makes it harder to lean on any single quote as proof of something strange.

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