Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

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This was a sort of a chance observation.

No, I wouldn't say that I did . . . .

. . . I guess you would call it but you couldn't . . . it didn't at any rate.

Did you notice the . . . with the flash if lightning . . . .

There was an awful lot of lightning . . .

Sure was, South America and . . .

Any more coverage on the water photography?

Yes . . . on atmospheric phenomena . . . Did you feel as though you would have time to study them instrumentally? I mean from the time that they come into view until they pass out of view? Did you go through the exercise with the instrument - let's say a hand-held spectrometer or . . . .

Did I phrase the question?

I think so . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . but I'm not sure of the duration that your studies require.

That's my problem - I was trying to get some feel as to the duration that you had something in sight.

Does this . . . reduce the phenomena . . . where you'd fly along in regard to what the weather was and you'd say O. K., at 5 minutes after eleven I'm gonna do a spectrometer study and then you'd set the thing up and at 5 minutes after 11, you would start it or is it something where you would say - When I pass over this fungus . . . that's been reported to be 25 miles north of Tripoli - I'm going to study . . . which of these things are . . . . . . . .

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