Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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White
McDivitt
White
little disappointed with the map information at the
end of the flight .
I don ' t know exactly what was
hap~ening.
But I ' m convinced that it wasn ' t right .
As a matter of fact, a couple of times I was even
on the wrong orbit .
They' d give me a time and a
l ongi tude and I'd plot it. I wasn' t even over that
part of the world.
I'd be over a whole orbit from
that.
Jim, I made this mistake once , too.
I was using my
plotboard.
I ' d plot evecything out a.nd I came
down in a place in Mexico at night, Tampico, Mexico.
So I told them something about seeing t his spot in
Mexico. T:!ey didn't pick up my mistake.
I was back
checking over and I got to looking at my map and
said, "What the heck are we doing here at night?"
I was actually on the other side.
I was clear
around in Australia.
Had you plotted east instead of west?
No, I don't think I did.
I think I plotted it
correctly.
I went back and checked it and I never
did get the plot .
I went on to do something else
and I didn ' t get the plotboard squared away on that .
But I realized that instead of passing over Tampico,
Mexico, what I was really seeing on the ground was