Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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McDivitt
pictures with the 200 mm ~ontarex.
Since I
was actually ta~ing the pictures, I had to
divert my at;tention a little bit to the camera,
so I didn
I t actually 1ook down, and, I didn I t
actually see the airport .
But I had seen it
prior to that time, and I di d see it many times
afterwa-rds as we passed over.
Th<' recommendation
that I made from this was that the targets should
be fa.~ enough apart to allow adequate set-up, to
go from one ta-rget to another.
I thought the
updates ware good and the general location of
them with respect to my orbits was good.
And
the next one is El Paso Int;ernational , Jim.
Okay.
This was the fi:-8t tracking task that "1e
were going to do with the telescope ,
the
16 mm m:>vie cam1;!ra., and the fixed 200 m:n l ens on
the Contarex.
We sta=t;;d o,1t with a time of
closest approach and a time we should have been
able to see the target.
The only kind of
identification assist that we had at this time
was a piece cut out of a WAC Chart , that showed
El Paso International~and the world chart with
a gigantic scale on it . This made it a little
bit difficult from an acquisition standpoi~t .
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