Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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next night pass, ending at 217:17 I counted discrete
flashes of lightening for the entire pass. I collnted
206 discrete occurrances o:" lightning. This was with
the spacecraft level in HORIZON SCAN mode, looking out
one window with no yaw control. Now, we also saw
individual meteors at different times in flight that are
recorded on the tape recorder.
But unfortunately we did
not see this great shower that was supposed to come out
of Gemini.
I saw two in a period of about 10 minutes out of Gemini.
They headed below us, of course.
Alright, the meteors. Another significant observation
that we made was a brilliant display of the Aurora.
The
Southern Aurora over Australia.
And we have some pictures
here.
Sketches.
Sketches of what it looked like, and we will cover this
in the scientific debriefing.
And we measured the time it took for stars to occult to
the air glow layer, and for Venus to go through.
I think this would be best to discuss when we talk to the
scientists.
I think so.
Do you have anything else that was significant? As far