John Company

Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

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start:i.ng with Glenn who l ad trouble getting . . . .
Well, I r eally don ' t want to get into that t oo much for this reason.
Finall~,
there will be a very ine experiment carefully planned through the .
mean sensitivity uh,
Oh, uh, uh
O. K.
Well
Glenn didn 't u <:hang
t o get . . . . and therefore
he wa n ' t able to n!B.kc the E:amc a<.: ut
observations for example, a s Cooper
was a le to make bcca1.we for example , I don ' t think Glenn had an oppor­
tunity to really eet ..
and see very muc;l1 on the daytime skies but
you mean maybe, uh, tha t t ype of ult,
W 11
uy, Y'S , uh, o
vcn star light.
Oh, alright
ine, alright, I see what you mean.
What was the (landing)
o bit magnitude?
Yes .
0 . K.
llh,
going back to .... let rn
continue with tha t
Uh, in one ·a sc Coop -r \-,as taking o. small, woke up and opened his blind
and looked out and he was on t he dcr.y side .
The earth was direct l y below
him, the s u11 was d:Li:-cctly behind M m.
Do the
a.rth was not illuminating
any portion oJ' th
window nor- wus :i.t; :I.l.lumina ting anything that the
window :;aw.
'l'hcrc :i.::; not prj ma. y , :Jee mlary . . . . a ca
Jjk• Liiat .
II<: hu.d. IL :p1·c•t,Ly 1~oorl s :itual,ion and 1~ d i d ::,ee stars in the
d:i.y l,:int<: ln.rl, lie cJjd h1d:i.,·11.tc Ll1at ltl' wns ,1ot ul>l
to S<' •' a s well in the
w, • l<.now th ', ·e: ' s :t tJ.ny a i 1 • ~low l>uL i ts vc r-y di LTicul:t to mea sure and he e
J'.; ab r,:Lnni :ng
f usu ,jcct:i.v
ob"c1·vntion of , of its (men ) at the