Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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I
can increase the intensity of the gunsight by
q·..1ite a bit .
During the night time you can turn
it down and t he brightness is just abo-1t what
you need.
We made this ru~ on this pair of
sand spits, and t he t racking t ask was q,.j t,~
easy.
Now, I just happened to pick something
that was obvious t o me and tracked on this and
picked it up ;"11ile we got on at abo~lt 30 degrees,
u.nt il I got to the vertical,. and then I tcacked
it out to about 45 degrees past the vectical.
This was-a' t a real tracking task, in that I
didn ' t select a target before I got there .
But,
just stuck with whatever target I happened t o
be pointing at and ran the tracking task.
I
think we learned something from this pass in
that we want to be very careful about picking out
targets in the middle of an area where there
aren ' t any good water- lmd borders; there aren' t
any good contrasting colors.
There wasn ' t a
really prominent feature that I could start
from, that worked down to the city and eventually
to the airport .
So, I think that on this parti­
cular pass, although we didn ' t get any pictures
of our intended ta~get , we learned quite a bit
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