Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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mission , exclusively. It was very accurate .
You
could check the times in the plotboard as against
what you saw on the ground and you could locate
yourself quite adequately.
How about you?
While I 'm thinking about it, I thought the plot­
board information early in the flight was excellent.
But I thought that the plotboard i nformation at t he
end of the flight was not correct .
As a matter of
fact , I started ~o call them a couple of times , but
I never did.
By the time I would get the stuff
plotted , and get the map put where I wanted it , we
would be someplace else .
I 'm sure that that in­
formati on they were sending up to me wasn't right ;
I ' d be off an orbit or two .
After about the last day and a half, I used the
nominal orbit plot maps exclusively. I could see
the time and the location.
I
could spot it
right with the ground.
And I think I figured it
was seven minutes behind near the l atter part of
the mission.
This didn't bother me .
I could tell
how far it was behind, and then update my position
on the map quite easil y . I thought those pre-plots
were real good.
So did I .
I thought they were, too .
But I was a
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