Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

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We are not sure what they are at all.

There is a symmetrical one on each one of them.

Well, it goes back across the film, about 90 degrees.

Is it straight?

Straight, it's a pretty, the same width all the way across.

It might be my helmet tie-down strap.

No, this was a different exposure on both sides.

This is particular too, because the exposure goes all the way across the film. You.........

It is not within the frame itself. So there is a peculiarity there.

With respect to the black frame, the people have looked at it and they don't think this is a mechanical problem. It is an exposure problem most likely. We are investigating it further.

I also, was talking to some people on the cameras on it and they felt that it was an image of some type with the brightness out there, even if you are shooting at about 200 feet. It wouldn't be black.

There would be an image there you could bring it out.

Are these things really black, or is there anything on it?

Well, I don't know.

We just held it up like this and looked down, and that is about all we have done too, Jim. I don't think -

That is the only way I have and I couldn't see anything.

I haven't run a good detailed study yet.

But as bright as it is out there, just remember the, it was my visor, I think I had about 8 percent of light coming through which is about a normal type or light for me. It is really bright out there. I don't see how, even at a 1000; because with the recommended

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