"You can't take your eyes
from the window. There aren't words in the English language to describe
the sight."
- John Young
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Reentry of Gemini II spacecraft
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"The first thing you notice
[is] a sort of slight orange haze that envelops the spacecraft. And this
haze layer increases and changes color to a dark green. It's a very beautiful
thing. And then orange sparks of flaming material start flying toward...
At one point I remember... over Florida I could see the path that we'd
come down and it was a long, funnel-shaped path."
- John Young, describing
reentry (Newsweek, 4-5-65, page 51)
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