Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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from a tourist standpoint is the one I took of
the Cape , which everybody seems so excited about
right now.
That ' s one that was taken with the
sun on the window and at roughly a 30-degree
angl·e down from the horizontal , which indicates
you're shooting through a lot more atmosphere
than necessary.
The clarity was quite surprising,
even to me .
You can count t he launch pads and
see sizes of buil dings .
Because of the oblique
angle , you can actually measure the sizes of these
bui ldings .
I think we ' ve got a tremendous amount
of photographic potential from in space.
I think
that Jim and I menti oned a little bit earler that
t he area capacity inside the spacecraft limits the
capability to carry a good size telescope or a
very big piece of camera equipment.
I think that
coupled with t he EVA capabilit y t hat we have , we
can carry some equipment back in the adapter- -some
nice sizable cameras and telescopes--and build
mounts on the outside of the spacecraft .
We can
go EVA , pick these pieces of equipment up , bring
t hem out, and mount them on the sides of the
spacecraft so that we can take a series of