Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

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magnitude and brilliance that it really appears up there. It's
a beautiful sight. After the dark up there, it's very brilliant
and much more large as far as I was concerned and bright in magni-
tude than anything I've seen looking from the ground.

(Mercury) proved very, very pretty.

I bet you caught a photograph, too.

Yeah, just... you know and you've just--

Yeah, the colors on those things.

The colors that we took on the ground weren't too graphic.

Did you ever see--

Black.

Was there anything else?

Black actually looked beautiful and this is the way the sky looks...

The sky's black, but it's a beautiful black background. But that
doesn't come out on the picture.

Was the radical any good in the day?

(Hasistas) would be brighter than it is.

About twice as bright.

Twice as bright.

You could see it on the ground.

If you can't see it on the ground, that's the big thing here.

You could see it on the land.

You could see it on the land and the water. It was fine. But
when you cross the crosscloud, I think we ought to have two rings
of brightness.

You know right now it's very bright and just the next beat tannicals
look very dim and then you've got a gradation of dims.

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