Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

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see one" because you don 't have any idea what it is certainly can 't get
into measurement.
Results of this.............
Maybe we can give Dr. (Ritch) a chance.
Did he hav any questions?
I was curious as to wh t th difference is between sunset and sunrise.
Well, particularly with respect to the shape of the sun and how much does
it spread out in lattit ude.
Is it different for night and day?
We sort of concluded that the sunrise was prettier than the- no the sunset
was prettier than the sunrise.
The sunrise seems to be to my way of think­
ing was more white and blue.
But the sunset was many colors.
A l ot of
ed.
It i s red and blue.
They were much prettier.
I don 't know why
because we 've got some movies with us .
Actually we do have some movies that we tried to vary on some of them the
perture and I think we 've got, at least at certain times during the film­
ing, we 've got a fairly true representation of what's up there.The colors
in the pictures really do look right and, in fact, I was pretty happy with
them.
There are certain parts in there that give you pretty close to the
i mpression that w got, and I think these will also show you that the
sunset is u. little mar
spectacular than the sunrise.
Now there is one
thing that certainly is different in the sunrise.
When the sun comes, it
rally com.sup wjth SQch a much higher rate and it just booms right up and
bang it ' s light and a big ball of r·re from the sun comes up.
Now when it
goe
<lawn, Lhough, it ' 8 the rev, rs, and it kind of dies out slowly and you
,·o.n mt.1.yb
::ilt Lher and njoy and absorb the colors a little more.
Maybe
that '
th reason. ... that the sunset is a little pret tier.