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(Again a surprise, since we hadn’t thought of asking Seth for any data re the astronauts due for reentry tomorrow morning. This is for the Apollo 7, our first three-man spacecraft, in orbit for 11 days—a highly successful flight. We haven’t read of any experiments the crew might have conducted involving the ionosphere; or any other experiments, actually.)
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(Smile.) As long as he does not attempt to orbit the earth. Now. The activity of the ions, only slightly outside of the expected, will nevertheless make it plain that the scientists do not have predicted activity. Their predictions were based upon hypotheses that were not checked because it was not possible to check them under real conditions until this flight.
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The Russians have already discovered this. Now the irritability of the crew (Shirra, Eisele and Cunningham) is not due as Ruburt suspected to relative and also symbolic isolation, although this does have some bearing. It is due instead to the length of time spent in the relative orbit chosen, and electromagnetic variations at this level that affect brain, and to some extent motor activity. The report of the crew members will also point out some impairment of motor activity—an erratic rather than smooth nervous reaction.
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