Kevin Knuth
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And he said that when he went up to Skylab, they were on Skylab, I think it's 1977-ish.
They actually photographed a red flashing light.
Skylab was one of our early space stations.
And they actually saw a red flashing light that followed them for part of their orbit and then disappeared.
Yes.
And they had photographs of that.
Oh, they're actually public.
We'll surface this.
The big problem, you're photographing a light in the sky, and it's a handheld camera on a spaceship through a window.
And yeah, it's bouncy and blurry and out of focus.
But it's a red flashing light in space.
Nobody puts lights on satellites.
First, you don't need them.
And second, it's more weight.
You know, every ounce is going to cost you a crazy amount.
Yeah.
And then you have the Gemini 11 mission, where from the transcripts, the...
The astronauts were working, and something flew over there.
Houston asked, did something just fly over you?
And they say, affirmative.