NASA-UAP-D015, תחקירים מדעיים של אסטרונאוטים, 1962-1963

sossess B Little bit, my skin waswt and it didn't stick the way it had stuck
when we tried it out im the trainer and in the capsule on the pad end I finally
gave up on it and just kept one eye shut. This is marginally satisfactory, I
guess, but I was not well nighted after coming up to the first night. There's
@ redundancy here but you sure do have the right information or cases so a

| few of these will be repeats. How lets start out with the conditions of
dark adaptation.

) Well, most of these things that we had planned to look into if we could
on Astronomy sort of vent by the boards I apologize to the people at the
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think most of you are aware, at the end of the first orbit we start, having

some difficulty with control systen fa {from then on it was pretty mch eystens
monitoring with some locking around outside and that was it. So a lot of the

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back just had to go down the drain, but becoming night adapted--the first
time around I did get the eye patch out that we had gad ithis was not © very
satisfactory eye patch. I was going to try to use it over one eye so that

Ii was sweating a little bit, my akin wae wet, it didn't
stick the way it had stuck when we tried it out in the treiner and in the
capsule on the pad, gid I finally gave up on it and just kept one eye shat.
This is marginally satisfactary I guess but I was not well night adapted
Coming up to the first night. What it boils dowm to is that my dark adaptation
vas just @ result of the sun going down and mms normal dark adaptation fron

being on red light and dim light which takes some 10 to 15 minutes to get any

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when I'@ be well night adapted [at the end of the period This is some BM 37
mimutes later when you're approaching sunrise so you'd have @ -- I suppose
Sneek sa SUGAR: sainaia Vaid ibe seiilkieg “sans eden ak Gok @ half
hour, 33 minutes, something of thet order.

Did you have on opportunity to count the stars?

No, this is one of those things that went Gow the drain. I thought
about this on a subsequent orbit but I didn't spend any time on it. I feel
that my vision, the mmbers of stars I could see was not appreciably increased.
How, I had expected to see a lot more stars. I hed thought they'd really =
dump out once you got above the atmosphere but I--like it was in debriefing -
I think £6 the being out on the desert on = dark night in sumer when the
air is very clear and dry, sx@ You know what it is Like out around Reno and
sone of those places; how the sky really comes out si night end you can/sce
million stars. ga thats what it locked Like. It @idn't look like any more
then that.

This was a general impression but not enything you can put ymef your
finger on?

Thats right.

You had planned at the end of the second and third orbits--during the
second ané third…