Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

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Over
or t h Arica a couple of times we commented on dust storms,
although they weren ' t really dust storms?
We weren't s re that was a dust storm, right .
Remember I said that
is a ........ , and then we said well maybe not .
It wasn ' t a <lust storm us you woul<l see it from an air pl ane where you
·cc the wind
J.ow· ng on or prior to the <leseri. .
I.Je
et: i. ed
i. t, wasn ' t
u.
.us t storm, j u:,;i a dusty haze .
Ovt.:r N r th /\1'ri a .
Ovt;;.t Nnr h Af"ricu .
Over no1·th Indi u. Lt1<::re wu::; quite a pronounced
lin..:;e r edor ed .
l wo ld way you we r e , far les s con:;c j_uu::; of i t..
In fact , a r ather
interesting thing , it ' s - on one of our first pusses over the Cape
I was looking on talking to the Cape at that time , I told t 1em
I could look own and see the Cape, launch pads
and everything was
quite clear .
But in fact
the weather
own th re was not clear at
till.
Some of the i'ell ows wer e leav.ing at t hat.. Lime to go back to
lk>uston , kml t,he vi.::;lbility was ver,y, very lo1v.
You could see a mile
p r• s0rn,;Lhin1-: 1t11d j _l. wu.; aLJ qu · t; •••• •
W,· c;u11.l< l :;L, ::Lr-ai.gl1L d< wn l1til. we r-,11iJdn ' t see Lhe hangover at all .
J\1101.h ·r- qut:::l,iu 1, di.d y 1lu ever
-
Gor 011 C oper m,te
tho: ther e
w:t:.; <•La Li
,,n hj:~ :radio l.he s11me Ljrnc when he saw ligh ~ening di~­
cliur ge on t11
g r ound .
f!.:l.(i you -
jll you get any stati~ that you might
!,ave correlu.L ,a wiLh b .i ng near di:;Lurbc
weather on the gr ound.
'l'fli. s i:..;
ort of a chanc:
ot.rnerva.tion if you made i t .
N , J rlon ' t Lhink I did .
N(l
1 d.irl.n ' L u i I.her .
We wa ..
:1. lot i1 1 i.ghten-· ng .
W, • -
•tJ • had 11<, •• .