Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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from it.
I don't believe I ha.ire any other
comment on that pass.
Do yoa?
No.
I was quite surprised when we missed El
Paso.
Remember we thoaght , "Boy, this is one
we I re g01ng
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t o nai·1 . fl
Anrl the funny part of all this is that we had
both flown in a~d out of El Paso International
Airport no less than a hundred times.
We w,~re
pretty well assured of where we ware going and
what it looked like.
But we didn ' t find it
early eno-:.1gh .
We progressed too far before I
r eall y saw the toi,m , s.nd Ewen then I didn ' t
see the airfield, because I wasn ' t sure I was
over the right tovn U!1.til I was over it .
And
then ,it was too late to lo:->k q,t the airfield.
I think that the point that you' re making is
going to be well brought up in what I'm going
to say next.
Okay.
Why don ' t yo'.1 - - you made the next pass,
I think, on Tel-Aviv.
The next pass was Run No. 6, Target 15.
The
information I got was adequate to lJcate i t.
It turned out that this target had the essentials
that Ji;n was l ooking for and mentioned on his last