John Company

Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

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4-477 atomic oxygen green l i ne of the air gl ow
rom t he continual we may
have caused people to think that t here ' s someth ing very magic about t he
green (line) .
I f you are starting t he green line certainly you want
to observe the green line
are built very carefully to
obs rve (holding ) the green l ine j_n a nd uh, would continue (near) .
But
for
o.pplications it may not be alwuy" wise to subtract the
(<.:ontinuim) .
In other words , while' you ' ce d nling with a nd this is a gain
Lhosc 1,000, 7000
. 23 mentioned .h
' 77 j s the green line right here
but tl 1ere ' s a str ng con tinuim rig/it nlong he.re.
A lot of 1 ight here;
this :i.s th light we ' v
been talkjng n.bout .
'I'his visual night (glow)
visnl>) c nip;ltt elow cdr.;c on :Ls is t he total.
,.,o there's a lot of light
thcr and just .
. :· n tl c :Jexto.nt experiment . . . . constructively
critical pcx·riaps th r ,ason why th
. didn 't wo· k too well i s af ter
one is throwing awa y a lot of l i ght .
Uh, t his is not a s bad as the case of
foe J.ights you. know.
Remember years ago the
og lights were yellow.
'rhey were li~ht wasters .
There i s no r1.:ason, the only reason why they
wo. kcd. well is th .Y w 1·L· low down :;o cv ·ntuall,Y the yc~llow . . . . disappear.
Hut .YtYll don 't; want t.o w;u:.:tc /J.liY Li1'.l1t..
However White will point out to
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be <lid J>r.·c
·r us:i.np: l;l1c 1~reen l'jlter and McDivitt preferred
I':i 1.·::; t t o , 1.cpcnds a lot your own method
,,r· ul11~r:rva.t.J1,n.
J do w:Lr,t to po.i.1,L L,uL that on' has Lob very ca eful
I1ow on • rnak1.::i .
upplicu.t:i or1:-.; n1 · 1d e glow.
Uh,
ecall any
other
u.h ,
l-.t1irlf.'.f; , tlie_y
you. wcrcn ' t l1ct·c yest.e day ;
. know a
J i.ttlc bit 1;tbout H ..
lfli, I think I shoulcl . . . . . senr·it i veity H ' each of the astronauts