Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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McDivitt
White
three times the detail of the section cut out of a
Mercator Chart , which I found very useful .
By prop­
erly folding a map , I think I would prefer to have a
map of even higher detail with me.
It didn't seem to
me to be a drawback to have a large map in the cockpit,
as long as you kept it gelded down in the proper
manner.
Do you have any comments on that?
Well , I agree with lli.
I thought that this was a
relatively simple task.
I felt it would have been
much easier to do if we had the platform up so we
could point the spacecraft down using inertial ref­
erence and using the platform, but it wasn't diffi­
cult to do it just visually. It only took a short
time to plot up a couple of points and run back and
determine your own ascending node.
You kn.ow, another thing that I found very interesting
was when they called up plot points and they' d give
you 30 degrees right , down 45 degrees .
Even without
the platform, those meant a lot to me.
I could
visualize very easily where I was going, whether I
was small- end-forward or blunt end forward.
I could
visualize quite well, without a platform, 30 degrees
down and yaw 30 degrees over, looking for a point.
It seemed I could check points nearly as well wi th
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