Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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pass I had a nice body of water.
Th8 Dead Sea
was a good l~cation, and actually the city
itself was located at the end of the
Mediterranean, so I felt that landmark-wise I had
a pretty good tar get to track.
I came in and
the first target I picked up was Jaffa, and I
was on it so well t hat I decided to go ahen.d and
track Jaffa.
At f irst I had thought it was Tel-
Aviv, and 1.1. few seconds later I relized tha-'; it
wa.s the city 10 o:r. 20 mileo north of 'l'el- Aviv.
The reaso:i. I picked it up so easily is because
there was a little spi ~ of l i:i.nd t~1at jutted out
into the water and it sat right in this little
natural basin.
I looked down and I saw Jaffa
and I a0tually saw the 1ittl,~ round cir,:ul :1.r•
airport in Jaffa,
I also saw Tel- Aviv, and I
saw the airport that I was really looking for,
but I decided I 'd go aheaci. and track Jaff a and
tak~ a few pictures of Jaffa as we went over.
You ha1re to reali ze that I wasn ' t using a
gunsight on my side, and I was also cont~olling
the sp(v:..,,-~raft and firing the camera at the same
time• So the tracking i.:;; probably a little
rougher than it would. be from the left-h,md side .
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