Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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ground.
They sort of tend to be a constraint
on what you can do, but that ' s not the case in
this kind of a task.
White
The t hiug that really amazed me, Jim>is the
first time I saw an airfield from up there.
First time I saw one, I saw it directly from
overhead.
I was amazed at the clarity I could
see
of f ield.
Although,of course,I saw no
airplanes sitting on it , I fel t t hat I was
seeing down to a resolution of 50 f eet or
better with my own eye when there was a contrast
of some type available to me.
In general, I
thought the clarity of things that you saw
was far better than it is from just flying at
40 000 feet.
Things are mu9h smaller . bu+ they
·a.re much clearer to me .
Also,,at night things
are much clearer. And over one town we passed
in Australia the lights were very, very clear
down there to me .
I think that with some type
of an optical aid
we
can
see a great deal.
I think that with cameras with higher power and
more capability,we can take pictures of a lot
more down below.
I think t hat the only picture
I
1 ve seen so far that I thought would be nice