Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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the ground or a previous pass across the target
so that when you go across it, you not only lmow
the general area thRt you're supposed to point into,
but the exact spot where that target is and
some identifying f eatures that will lead you
to this target.
So with the initial things
like a lot of contrast to get you in the area
and then a lot of detail gathered either from
target study or from a previous pass across the
target,I think that you could go ahead and
find it .
Once on the target the tracking
task in the Pulse Mode is not difficult at all.
I think you can track within just tenths of
degrees of the target without too much difficulty
whatsoever, in multiple axes .
And I found that
without having the platform up
every.,
tracking task I did was in multiple axes, and
although you're going through some very
peculiar maneuvers, it ' s very instinctive to
track up and down, left and right, using the
gunsight,without any regard to what your attitude
with respect to the local horizontal is. In
air- to-ground gunnery you sometimes find that
you ' ve got to pick your attitudes up from the
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