Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

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over the place .
It follows, then, if you switch that , I mean the next time is ter ical
and the next time was great .......... . that if you could get out in
the spacecraft at night, ...... .
You ' d sec a l ot more .
You say it ' s "great " because you saw 7th
ma.gn • tude :-itars, l'.,1i t Ed and I
oth proved th t w_ could see more
stars
.Lyt11p; in an airplane at 40,000 feet here on earth than we
could up there .
But Lhen if you want t o l ook at the diagolect ric exampl e, which is
p:eomeLrical y ext nded ob ec L--you ' re l ooking through this little
narrow an,lc r estriction wher .as if you ' d ·gone outside you could see
this clong~Led phenomenon with ease--the same with l ooking at meteors ....
You ' r e making some conclusions right now that we 're not--haven'.t made- ­
nor making .
Well I 'm t r ying t o get your impressi on as to whether-­
And I ' m not sur e before when you were t al king about the dayglow
of what conclusion you drew from what I said .
Are you t rying t o
imply Lhat ther e ' s a differenc be lMeen a night sky and a day sky
which 11.r
01>vio1Jsl.y ..•..... or b tween the slcy and the ground in the
<layt: i rr11' ?
I ' m Lr y i ng 1. > J'lnd
irt l1ow w 11 yo,ir seeing conditions w .re compared
l.o 1.lif, M rc 1u·y c t·ew ' s .
llh -h1 lt.
J\nd tl e i mplication that I get i
thaL the i mplication is the same
condiLion in the daytime with i errical probably because of the
way th
spaccc r-aCt ·s shnped an multiple scattered l ight .