Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

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The particles coming out the back.

But then we saw that he could absolutely could not use it as a yaw reference.

They were going straight forward.

Any way you were going, they were always flowing with you, and it was there were two urine dump systems on the spacecraft, one dumped out the right side and one dumped out the left side. The one on the right side you could see out the right window and they would eventually come on the left side and you could see them out both windows. Predominantly on the right side. When you dumped from the left side, it was predominate on the left side.

They always appeared to be spherical.

You could look out and they were going straight - you know you would look out and they were going straight up this way.

They were very brilliant.

As a matter of fact, the prettiest sight of the whole flight was - you'd do this right a sunset and you would have a perfectly black sky with all these - with the sun shining on all these particles.

It was real pretty.

What were your thoughts regarding participating in the coordinated ground-spacecraft experiment where something has to be done on the ground concurrently with your - doing something else, from the spacecraft.

You mean one more participant?

I think you would be able to do something like that.

You mean laying out patterns on the ground for visual.

Oh, let's say beating a hurricane or something such as that where

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