Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

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25 or so degrees below the horizon. We sometime see astronauts might be able to see that. Uh, Cooper was able to see the . . . light, and uh, White and McDivitt saw the . . . light, very well. Uh, the let's see there's another point here; well, we'll go back to that in a moment. The reason I think have the other designs to show what can be done. If we have time to show what can be done by extending visual observations we will do so. Uh, some of these new results, uh, that McDivitt and White were able to record are very interesting. Uh, first of all, they saw a structure in the air glow and this is the first time this is reported. In one instance, a uh, . . . . . . . . . is seen some structure in the air glow that they're looking edge on turns (white) . . . . This has never been observed before. It is very hard to observe this with a rocket; you don't know when to fire the rocket to do that. They, they observed that. They observed another interesting thing. They observed meteor going into the earth's atmosphere down below them. It is the first time a meteor is reported from uh, uh, space by an astronaut. And it was a very peculiar experience for them I am sure because they saw the things below them going down into the earth's atmosphere. They saw when they were over Australia, they saw uh, over Australia they saw (southern) lights uh, this again is the first time I think this is reported by astronauts. They saw these silver lights below them as a, a curtain I think that they can guess . . . . . a lot better than I could. Uh, uh, . . . . and this is sort of below them. They both saw the uh, southern lights? Uh, these, these are sort of night time phenomena. There are some interesting twilight phenomena that is difficult to observe from rockets or satellites and they have been watching sunrise and sunsets. Uh, they found sunrises more

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