Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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because looking at a single light at night doesn't
give you any depth perception at all.
You just
don't know where the booster is.
I think that
summarizes it.
Ed, you want to add anything?
You
weren't watching it as much as I was , but you saw
enough of it to know exactly what was going on.
Well, you see I wasn't able to put the pieces
quite together because I was either looking out,
and I couldn't see when you were thrusting, or I
was looking in and watching you when you were
thrusting and listening and not looking out.
I
tried to interJect my thoughts as we went along
and I agree with what you said.
I don't believe
I want to add anything else.
Now that we've covered the tracking and the losing
of the booster, I think we ought to go back to the
very beginning a t insertion and we will go through
the checks that we went through as we proceeded
along and the things that F,d and I were both doing
aside from tracking the booster, the things that we
were either doing to prepare to come back in at
area 2-1 or t o stay in orbit and proceed with
the FNA as we had planned,
In looking over the
fli ght plan that we had and the briefing guide on
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