Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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But I did get a good indication of the cap9.bili.ty
to tt'ack a target anci to pick a target up , and
I think tha~ I was quite surprised 4t the ease
at which you could track.
I also concurt'ed with
Ji:n
1 s conclusion that a goo,l prominent landmar.k
primer, preferabl;f a body of W9.ter somewhere to
nail do·,m your target, is the most desirablA
f eature.
I also feel that an important thing
that the next crew going up could do would be
to spend a lot of t.ime on jnst pla.Ln map study
fr the 30 degrees north to 30 degrees sou.th,
and try to p·L•::k up the prominent f ,~:1t:.2res to
permit them to become quickly adjusted to what
they can see and what they can
I t see d·own
below.
I think that a 1-i.;;tle concentrated map
study prior to the flight woulci help a lot with
the D- 6.
Also a concentrated study on the
targets themselves wo·..lld be quite beneficial.
This is s~rmething that we really never got to
do.
The original 243 ~argets were too voluminous
even to ~onsider time to atudy each one, and
when we got the final 19 targets, it was pretty
late in the flight to be working on ::xi
exp-::riment that wasn ' t even on our flight.
Even
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