Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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White
McDivitt
White
out, it was south of the main built-up area that
actuall y had another large group of buil dings
south of it.
I did pick up the airport itself
at just about 5 degrees before the nadir, and I
tracked over to the target, probably just at the
nadir and just shortly past.
I had the 16 mm
movie camera going with the telescopic lens on
it.
I had t he gunsight on bright.
I used
Pul se Control Mode .
I got right on the target
and I managed to fly the spacecraft in such a
manner that the gunsight never deviated from the
target by more than a half a degree , I feel,
if it deviated that much.
I think it was
considerably less than that.
But there wasn ' t
any great difficulty in the tracking task, and
I managed to control in all three axes and hold
the target just about wher e I wanted it.
Here
again we had a problem with the contrasting
target; the water-land mass was quite some
distance away.
In this case, how f ar is it from
El Centro to Yuma?
I don
I t know, Jim.
150 miles?
Yes.