Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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White
This was i dent i fication and acquiring it and
seeing how well the charts that yo.;. had equipped
you to identify specifically the landmark in
consideration.
The first one I had was the
junction of the Blue Nile and the White Nile ,
and more specifically it was a little island in
therA,and it was the northernmost tip on the
island.
I realized as we came around that I
was going to be in pretty good shape in this
free drift to be able to see the targets.
As
we came aro'.llld, I looked out in the general
di rection that I had been instructed from the
ground, and the first thing that I noted was
the major Ni l e coming down to the i~tersection.
I was able to follow it pretty clearly down to
the intersection as we got r oughly 20 or 25
df~grees from the vertical .
I was able to pick
up the little island in the junction of the
White and Nile River , and I was able to follow
i t all the way through as we passed over.
As
we got to the 90 degree point overhead , it was
quite easy to track with rny eye .
I wasn't
actually tracking it .
It was northeast