Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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I'm not sure exactly the sequence in there .
Okay.
I think before that ,though, I did run a series
on D-6 Targets 11 , 12, 13, and 18.
Ok1:1.y.
Why don ' t you go ahead - ­
Shall I discuss those?
Yes.
Okay.
11 was Adagier Morocco , 12 was Wheelis , 13
was Alexandria, and 18 was Dhyran.
They gave
me all these four targ~ts a-id I realized
right awa3 that I couldn ' t possibly handle this
many of them and do it adequately.
This was
the first time we'd been givei1 t; ,1.) go- ahead
for some tracking on which we could use OAMS.
I elected to "J.Se ,pulse as a fuel conservation
method.
I selected to try Wheelis and Alexa.nd:riu:·
since I thought that I could locate them quite
easily and that they were sufficiently far
apart to track adequately.
As we came up on
Wheelis {I'd been stationed there prior to this
timei I k~ew pretty well exactly where it was .
As it turned out, there were sc.n, .. high clouds
over Wheelis, and I wasn't able to observe it .
No . 13-- I picked up Alexandria and took manual
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