Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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But later on we f ound that these same two types
of information- -the world map and the small WAC
Char t --were a.dequo.t e for other types of targets.
The WAC Chart showed of course the range of
mountains just west of El Paso and the White
Sands and the Rio Grande River .
We came across
Southern California, and I could see the Salton
Sea.
I didn ' t track them, but I looked out the
front and I could see the mountains of New
Mexico and Arizona.
.And I saw a bunch of white
places down below us , any o~e of which co~ld iave
been the White Sands .
I f I could have really
picked out the White Sands by themselves. and
unf ortunately they were off the WAC Chart ·
that I had, I think the contact would have
been good enough for me too pick up El Paso.
As
it was, the only features I had that would have
been of great importance were the river, which
was the Rio Grande River-:--'3.rld at that point was
not very noteworthy--and the mountain range , ._
which from the al titude of arou..~d 90 miles or
more couldn' t be picked up.
I think that this
type of a topographical or geographical feature ,
like a valley or a mountain,,is not adequate