Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

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But what you 're looking at right here then i f it was dark.
To tell you the truth, I think what 's more· important is the angle that
you 're looking at them at.
Well anyway, we did see a lot of them.
And they 're not difficult to see.
And I don't think we were looking at anything that approaches a 7th magni­
tude meteor.
You see we could see-
Well, I was just curious whether this was the reason why the­
, Much brighter than that.
I didn't see any real dim ones.
As
a matter of fact, since we weren't looking for them, you know, we wouldn't
have seen them.
You look up there and you say "I wonder what magnitude
star I can see" and you look around and you say "O. K., I know that's a
3rd magnitude and that's a fifth and then I see that one over there is
dimmer than the fifth and that one's evan dimmer so t hat
eventually you come to the conclusion that maybe you can see 7th magnitude
... I saw those because I was looking for them and I could come
to t hat conclusion, but I never looked out at them to see how dim a meteorite
I was only seeing the ones that I was attracted to while I was l ooking
f or something else.
~,o that might be 1:1. nice thing to ( ask) . . . . . . . . . . . on the next
(flight) .
W11, if you looked out for th m, you probably could see a lot dimmer ones.
Dr. -
.. . ...... general ~uestion or something?