NASA-UAP-D015, Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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• Page 1 Miss Reeves x20593
• Page 2 draft ....... a little bit, my skin was wet and it didn't stick the way it had stuck when we tried it out in the trainer and in the capsule on the pad and I finally gave up on it and just kept one…
• Page 3 degree of adaptation out of. I could notice a difference in the numbers of stars I could see first going after the sun first went down and later on then when I'd be well night adapted at the end of…
• Page 4 3 stars. But a general impression of looking out at these areas was that the numbers of stars I could see was not greatly increased. You mention the transmission through the glass be comparable ...…
• Page 5 4 Was this bothered or being bothered by moonlight on the windows or was the sky actually bright? No. The sky was not bright. I didn't notice the sky being bright at all, nor was it moonlight…
• Page 6 5 This didn't seem to be any problem. Looking up fairly close to the moon, I would guess a--counting a number degrees probably, you could see right up to the edge of the moon. The stars would be…
• Page 7 6 this was very similar. You do the same thing there and I had no--there was no problem with the eyes. The light though, it was very noticeable. The light was a very brilliant clear, white light and…
• Page 8 7 from there on. Thats what I was prepared to see, I guess, but this wasn't the way it was at all. The sun goes down and its a brilliant display. Theres all the spectrum lined up here almost. Just as…
• Page 9 8 Solar Corona. No. This--once again I think to observe these things properly we are going to have to be night adapted before we get there and thats what we lost by having other complications on the…
• Page 10 9 probably a degree and a half to two degrees wide and it was quite visible once you start looking for it. It [REDACTED] seemed to go out and taper out. No, it didn't taper as much as the light at…