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[i]Please pass to Major Cooper, in flight, from Air Force Secretary Zuckert and Chief of Staff General LeMay. It is with great pride and enthusiasm that the entire United States Air Force is following the progress of your historic flight. A dramatic contribution to aerospace exploration. Good luck, and God speed.[/i]
[i][503] Probably no other result of the MA-9 mission excited more interest than Cooper's claim to have seen from orbit objects on the ground as small as trucks and houses. Skepticism on this point abated after the astronaut explained in detail to representative scientists at the Cape on May 21 just where, when, and how he could see dust and smoke below, from 100 miles directly above - if the contrast was right.[/i]
[i]I could see individual houses and streets. I saw some trains and some trucks in some of the clear areas. I noted several cases of looking at the wind direction on the ground due to smoke coming out of smokestacks and out of the fireplaces of houses. I could particularly see a lot of houses and yards, fields and roads and streams and lakes in the Himalaya areas, in the high mountain areas. I could see a lot of snow on the ground in the upper portions of the mountains and a lot of the lakes frozen over even down in the lower sections — a lot of the windblown, sandy, high plateau areas of the Himalayas. I saw the ground light experiment very clearly. I saw the little horseshoe-shaped town that the ground light was out from.[/i]
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