Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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line of -sight w:ith .
On the other hand I found
that if the sun was on the window you couldn't see
beyond the nose of the spacecraft.
This satellite
that I saw over around Ha¼~ii--I saw the thing
and we were closing on it.
We might have had a
better rendezvous with it than with our own booster.
We were closing on it and I was concerned enough
that I checked to see where the a .c. Fower Switch
was to see if I had maneuver capability at the
time :
The • sun came across the window and I
lost it just like that. It might have been 5·
miles out.
I don't knov•. It might have been then.
It might have been 50 miles out, but I had the im­
pression in the 30 or 40 seconds I saw it that it
was quite close because I could make out the shape
of it. Shoot!
The sun came across the window and
that was the last thing I saw out the window.
I
never saw another thing out the window until we
were gone and until the sun finally came off the
window.
So, if you are doing an optical r endez­
vous and you've got the sun on the window, I don't
know what you'd do.
White
And if you have as dirty windows as we had-- our
windows had a white film of material on the
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