Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

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windows , the light corning through, that I couldn':t tell you whether
there' s anything that if I looked up above I could see an image, or
not.
But I t hink that possibly , if we could find a long black
tube and a window with no film on it and some way of closing off
all t..he liv,ht inside the spacecraft , I feel that maybe I could look
t1p a.ncl T could have seen t he ulack sky (and the stars ) .
Yeah , we didn ' t have t.,hat , so I wouldn ' t draw that conclusion from
what. I saw up t..here ,
All I can say is that you couldn ' t see up
and see t he stars in the daylight because of' all these other
reasons .
Now if you eliminate other reasons, I think probably you
could.
I wouldn' t say f or sur e that that ' s r i ght .
The point that
interests you when you ' re talking about accui t y, is t o look down
on the ground and you can see very small objects in the daylight .
So t hat with one is (resolution) and the other one i~ sensitivity
t o different l i ght levels .
And I ' m talking about light levels from
Gemini , i n terms of having a niosy background .
I want.. you to be careful of the conclusion that you made.
You've
p;ot three 1.hinr~:.: !.hat you ' re obviously tryinp; to make conclusions
out of', and 1 wunl. t,o be sure -t,ha1. you didn ' t make some of your own
conc:l 11slon:; out ol' t..hc:m.
Out of !.h.is Mercury, they have Mercury,
and you ' :re p;oing t.o compa:rc Mcrcm·.v and Gemini observations and you
Look Lhe insiu.e- tlie- spncecraft observat ions and said at night it
was t-'.reat and. in the day time it was lousy.
Well , in the daytime
I didn ' t, reel it, was l ousy .
I dori ' i, know what standard you ' re com­
parj ,,g it against.
YoL1 ' re comparj ng it against Mercury .
I think
,YO\J ' d be very car eful in d rawing that conclusion.
Ancl 1.i1c11 L!H·r·e ' ~ rwotl1e r ll.rca that. you want Lo make conclusions on