Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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of my track 92 miles, so it was really q·-.1ite far
awey even when I was at the 90 degree point.
reported that I thought this was a very good
landmark. It was very easy to see, and I felt
if I had a higher power telescope I could have
tracked it quite adequately.
I classed this
landmark as being satisfactory, and I classified
the charts that I had used to identify it for
me as being quite satisfactory.
Incidentally,
I believe that this , of all th ➔ landmarks we
had, was probabl y the easiest one of them all to
locate , being right out in the middle of the
desert , pointed out by two rivers converging
f rom a major river. It was a very good
landmark.
Okey.
You ran some more -- just Apoll o l and­
marks. It wasn ' t really a tracking task problem.
Didn' t you run o~e off of Puerto Rice\ too., or
-was t his the only l andmark that we really ran?
This was the only real Apollo Landmark I ran.
I r an some:1 D- 6 Landmarks.
Okay.
Fine .
I think the next one that we r an
was a ~order pass on El Paso.
Or di d you run on
Te1 ­ Aviv before that?
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