Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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It was a reasonable distance, probably something
on the order of 150 miles or m~be only 100
miles, but the problem was that between Yuma
and El Centro there weren ' t any identifing
masses that led you toward Yuma.
And I had not
up till this time looked down to try to find
where the Yuma airport was,because we ' d been
saving fuel .
So, this was the first time that
I'd seen Yuma airfield from orbit .
As I get
into the next target, I think you'll see what
I'm leading up to.
Having a first look at a
target like this, being able to identify the
city, but then essentially wasting time before
I found the airfield within the city, I think,
cost some valauable time and consequently cost
some good pictures; because the best picture
is going to be that picture which is taken
exactly over the airfield.
That wouldn ' t happen again though, would it?
No ,
You 'd probably have it pretty wel l nailed.
No, it wouldn ' t .
So ,the next target I had was
Cairo -- Cairo Int ernational Airport .
Now,
we'd been over Cairo quite a few times before
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