9/4/2026
Dark Matter

The View from Above: The Gemini Visual Acuity Experiments

Filed by Dr. Kai Vega
The View from Above: The Gemini Visual Acuity Experiments
NASA astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. took 29 color photographs of the Earth with a 70mm camera as he orbited our planet during the Mercury-Atlas 9 mission in May 1963. Cooperā€™s view from the window of his Faith 7 spacecraft was spectacular, and he reported that he could see vehicles motoring on dirt roads, smoke-belchingĀ trains, [ā€¦]
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Dr. Kai Vega
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