Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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Apogee should have been farthest apart .
Our perigee should have been closest together.
It was almost opposite.
We were with it at
Carnarvon, but we wer e way far away from it and
getting farther away from it as we crossed the
United States , or Mexico, or wherever we came.
I
wasn' t looking out at the scenery; I was looking
at the booster. It.was extremely difficul t to
t rack across the water and as we got to the land
it was almost an impossibility to track it , Here
the distance i s extremely difficult to judge.
It
It could have been anywhere from 5
to 15 miles
directly below us at this time.
If I had a range
rate I could have told where I was all the time
and with range rate I would have been able to
rendezvous with it from a mile.
I could have
done the things I lmew had to be done , rather than
try to do it .forcefully.
I sort of feel the big
problem was that we were so optimistic for those
first three orbits that it is almost unbelievable.
It became apparent when we tried to do the EVA
that we couldn' t do it in the t ime allotted.
But
anyway,I had decided by the time we had gone by
Hawaii, or wherever it was after we had been in the
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