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Gemini VII Air-to-Ground Transcript Volume I: 5011500_VolumeI

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CONFIDENTIAL 335 116:07:00 P And then beneath it, where the sun is probably going to come up, the band of reddish orange is now increased in diameter. Do you agree? 116:07:09 C I agree, increasing and you see the - and you can also now pick out clouds on the horizon. 116:07:14 P Yes. 116:07:16 P And the blue band now is sort of washed out to a little bit - - 116:07:19 C Toward the top? 116:07:21 P Yes. Toward the top. 116:07:23 P It's still beneath what I say would be the thickness of the airglow, would you say? 116:07:24 C Oh yes, it is. It certainly is. As a matter of fact, from horizon to horizon you can see the sunrise. 116:07:40 C Yes. 116:07:45 C Now as the sun comes up the airglow seems to vanish in that area. 116:07:48 P Yes, just about now the airglow is just about vanished, but away from the line of light coming up, the airglow is ... 116:07:57 C ... see it. 116:07:59 P Right. 116:08:02 C It's obscured by the brightness of the sun - the sunlight. We still can't see the middle of the sun. 116:08:07 C Now the reds close to the earth are getting more vivid, giving way to yellow. Right, Jim? 116:08:11 P Yes. 116:08:14 C And you can see bumps of an occasional cloud in there. You notice it's not a uniform horizon any more. CONFIDENTIAL

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