EXPLORER 2 6 spinning... I'm feeling sparks and light, and feeling ener- gized... and then at one stage it's going to shoot back out through the Earth... It's funny, it's like the Earth is almost like one small atom. I can just see that the Earth is one little, tiny atom in one whole big cosmos. Just one lit- tle atom... I'm moving around inside that atom... I can see different parts of this atom. Now it's spinning back around, and I'm going to shoot out... now in another direction... Now I'm coming up very, very rapidly. It's like I'm coming up through the ocean. I went into an earth part, and now I'm going to come up through an ocean part. It's really beautiful... I can see fish. I can see a whale... my capsule is cooling off on the outside... sort of a rainbow... feels nice and smooth. I'm going to float around like a submarine... pretty dark down here... feel lighter... pretty kind of fish float- ing by... beautiful colour... there is a shark now, a dol- phin... I'm just enjoying everything inside this capsule... coming up to the surface... Pacific Ocean... nice and warm... looking around... seeing islands... Things start looking small again... I'm back on my lauching pad... oh, interesting... the shape of my capsule is going to
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be changed... it's going to be molded into a complet circle. I'm sitting up in it now —before I was lying down— it was like a bullit... it's going very, very fast, but I feel calm and cool... relaxed inside, and I'm spinning out in space... It looks like I'm heading toward a star now... it's a sun... closer, closer, very, very fast... rolling over and over... I can just see it... getting closer into this star, this sun... getting so big now... I very much become aware of the
EXPLORER 2 7 heat, and it's not affecting me... it's getting very, very bright, and my capsule is turning into certain shades of green to shut out some of this bright white light... spin- ning very, very rapidly into this hot molten star... ooh... so bright... As it is getting brighter my capsule is getting darker... I can see... ooh... nothing but gas and fire, and really bright... I can see all of a sudden all sorts of... colours... I can see many spectrums of the sun... I'm.... I'm shooting through them... it is a sun... shooting through ++. I'm going into a red vein... it's nice, everything has turned red, now... red tunnel, shooting rapidly through it. Now I'm going into another part of this spectrum... it's like being so close inside these beams —sun beams— now I'm in a nice blue one, so cool and nice... riding along real fast; things moving along outside... now, getting into an orangy brown beam... real bright orange... I've gotten out of the browns... bright yellow one now... rolling over and over... the ball is turning over but I stay upright... I'm getting sideways around the sun... I can hear music... merry-go-round music... inside this star, this sun... I'm seeing... ooh... it's a beautiful garden... my goodness! a very, very... I'm sort of floating around