“01 15 24 This is Friendship Seven. I’ll try to describe what I’m in here. I am in a big mass of some very small particles that are brilliantly lit up like they’re luminescent…. They’re coming by the capsule, and they look like little stars. A whole shower of them coming by… “01 16 10 They’re very slow; they’re not going away from me more than maybe three or four miles an hour…. “01 19 38 Sunrise has just come up behind in the periscope… as I looked back out of the window, I had literally thousands of small, luminous particles swirling round the capsule….” Commander John Glenn Mercury
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