Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

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... the air e:low.
Can y ' all Lell il' i t ' s dark?
Some little (Supplemental? Sublimal?)
pict11 r c o f f,he hor i.zon 't
Well jf yo,; watched a certain star , you could tell when it went b elow
Lhe horizon .
You J·ust can ' t look out ther e and say, "O. K. , that ' s the
hor izon . " IL depends ·on the stars.
Now, you can look out there and
::,ay, "O. K. , now , that's the horizon ; not because of the stars . "
necausc of the luck of the stars ar,d also the air glow.
And a l so t lnmd(':r·sLorms on the hor izon ..... .. .. (of the Lark? )
proves that you can get. it (pictures?) .
But you never can say that­
and I never would evet' say that, I co1,1ld t ake a pencil and draw a very
l'ind I. ine o.nd say U,aL ' s the horizon at night,.
As a matter of fact,
in the clay Lime, c:i t her .
Did you ge L the point. that Edward made about the moon , though , that
when you look at it f rom even far and high, you can see all these stars .
You see t he moon ; but you don ' t see ,just the light of the moon .
You
see a l ot of glow aro1rnd it.
. ..And f rom on earth.
But up in or bit
1 didn ' t sec any glow around i t .
I saw the l i ght--I saw the moon.
Right next t o H was dark.
Ther e ' s not,hin~ armind j1, ,
It ' s ~har p .
l~vco when yo11 :l<-e u aha.r p rjm her e: on ea.rth--Yon see, if the moon were
her e nnd wu:-: L11a L b,iµ; 11.rounct. J ' rt Lend to see glow around her e.
C:ver1 wr1cn Uie moot1 is i-n (venus?)
You do at Limes .
Tha t depeHds on the humidity on a clear ni ght .
Normally when Lhe moon ' s out on a c:lear ni gh L, you have a lot of haze
and stuff around it.
(that ' s noL Lhere? ..air?)
which you ' d expect
when ,vou ' t·e out, of t he atmosphere .
You know, we received a picture
in t.11c ma i I whi(•t1 Lr .von ,'tt1::;L , t1av.Lu1-'. been on a space fli ght , I think