Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

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sticking ouL on th t spacecraft ; and if t h e sun is shining on
that nose , ,you know darn well it ' s based on it .
Al so t he light on
t he nose •• 3 refl ected back int o the windows gives you a light .
And
t here ' s a. 1ot of things 0 1 tside that window that give light to your
eyes .
We roun
that th · r e W/lS a f'l i m on (trie cone?) t hat gave
1ight to .vo1,r (; y r:! :, .
The r e arc so rnany th ln1.'.,e; n:round ther e that would
give you n. clu
You could indeed be plo.(: ·•rt
oi1 t into a ..... if you
tllk that same spacecraft and I knew there wasn ' t anything outside,
no dayglow, just nothing but an absolutely black sky up there, shining
l i ght on the spacecraft,
I woul d get the impres sion that I was i n
the daytime .
I hesitate t o lead you down the wrong path.....
Did you see stars in the daytime f'rom insi de the spacecraft ?
At sunset and .;unrise that you c011ldn' t when you shaded both one• s
s ' des .
Herc n.p;ain it ' s the same kind of problem.
We had something
or Llt
winetows; w
had th _ rJl'.'ight nose of the spacecraft, the sun
was shining ori the spacecraft any1, Lu.ce 1 t event1 ally came into the
winclows ...... in the form of money .
And I , once or twice when we
were in free drifl.
I could sees rneLhing bright up in the sky .
I
coul n ' t Le t.1 you wheth r it was r1 _planet or whether it was a star
or an.vt.hine: .
Rut ,you • ve got a loL of light coming into the space­
craf'L on the drw :s ·cte f'rom th
sun .... doe sn ' t have anything to do
w.. h who.t ' s out there .
It ha~ t o do with the fact that you ' ve got
11 lot o
nooe <; L.Lck·inv. out , ,you ' V(' got a l ot of window there was
som('Lh11 t1.1. on -t,h • w·indov, , n.nd even u· there "Wll.Sn ' t anything on the
w nd ,iw , tl1c l i 1.r11 I. com0.s 111 l.h
wi 11dow f rom the sun and is reflected
n ro1ir1d i.11 :;iJ, l.11-
~pa
era l. .
Yo11 ' v
got sources of light just all