Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

Text

This text came with the file. It may have mistakes. When the text and the image disagree, the image is right.

161
Cf3JS(FIOE~J
body of water , a river leading up to a lake, and
then the airfield sticking out in a very
prominent way.
Now I ' d never seen the Basra
Airfield before ·I
t r ied to take thi s picture.
But the landmarks near it were sufficient so
that finding the locati on of it was not difficult.
There wer en' t any towns around .
It was pretty
obvious from the bodies of water where I should
look for the airfield~and I picked it up also
20 degrees before I got to the nadir and
was
on it by the time I got to the nadir.
I tracked
it from there out to about 45 degrees past.
Once again I had a reasonably good t r acking
task.
I t hink that on the tracking tasks on
Yuma, Cairo, and Basra, I managed to keep the target
within the center half-degree cirle of the
sight.
I used the 16 mm movie camera with the
75 mm telephoto l ens on each one of these cases.
Did you have any other targets, Ed?
White
No.
McDivitt
I don' t believe you di d.
I think the big
thing here is that you ' ve got to be able to have
a landmark that stands out long before you get
to the target .
You have to have a lot of contrast .