John Company

Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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I would have rather seen the stars ex­
panded more so that we could tell it. We used two
polar plots of stars that were put out for the
Apollo thing that we picked up on our training.
We actually f l ew with one of the training things.
I took one out of my brief case.
Those weren't put out by Apollo. Those were put
out at Oll<r request.. Remember?
We asked for a-­
Yes, but I thought they came from the Apollo office.
No, they came from our own Flight Crew S uppart .
I know we requested them, but I thought that's
where they dug them up.
No, they got them from-­
Okay.
See, what they did is they added on all the Apollo
navigation stars.
They came from our own boys in
FCSD.
Those polar charts are really the cat ' s meow.
All those charts are pretty good.
So I thought the star charts sure gave us all the
information we needed. The maps and overlays-­
I think we really ought to cover the maps and over­
lays by the experiments. The map with the sliding