Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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Sidney.
You only missed it by half the world.
That 's right.
It was exactly on the other side.
But not exactly.
It was about 120 degrees off.
Mine was something like this .
One that I remember
specifically--they gave me a map update and they
wanted me to do a check over El Paso and El Centro.
Looking at this I could see that if I was at the
right time, I would have come up from the south;
whereas, my pass was down l ike this , and I
was an orbit or two off.
Well then , we're not talking about the same thing.
I think I had probably slipped it somehow on here.
You might have plotted 60 Fast instead of 60 West,
or something like that.
Yes.
But I was off by a time fact or.
It w~sn ' t too hard to realize that Mexico wasn ' t at
night.
I have a net! here that says , "RKV tape dump and a
No. 1 Medical Pass on the Command Pilot at 07:02
GMT."
That's right.
And I got you up a few minutes
before 07:00, if you recall .
In fact , just before