Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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pictures and use really good, big, higher-powered
telescopes for observations.
If we do mount them
out there , of course, we should mount themsomewhere
so that if we had a failure of some kind and
had to come right in, or weren't able to open
up the hatch again, we could separate them by
some type of pyro.
But I think that is the one
way we can combine our EVA operations wi th the
desire to bring up big pieces of equipment and
operate them with our spacecraft .
I agree.
I think that the possibilities of
viewing things on the ground from space are
practically unlimited, and I was quite surprised
at the ease with which you can control the
spacecraft and take pictures and I was surprised at
pictures you get .
We ' ve got an awful lot of
work t hat we can do in this area.
I think the
technique of acquiring these individual targets
needs a lot of work.
I feel that the best way
to do it, if you're going to be limited to one
pass over the site, is to use a photograph of it made
from some previous time.
I feel that the need
for a large landmark nearby, especially
a water landmark, is pretty great.
I thought