Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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area where the houses are brown and the
surrounding terrain is bro~m, everything' s kind
of small and it all blends together.
Unless
there was some type of contrast between them,
it ' s pretty darned hard to pick up a city right
out in the middle of the desert.
We had
trouble when we came to El Paso in finding it,
and Cairo blended right in with
-- blended right in with everything.
You could
see the air}!urt at Cairo--I ' m not sure if
I ever did really see the city.
I think I could.
When I was looking in that
area at Jaffa, as soon as I saw that airfield
out there and was concentrating on looking at
it, I saw more detail.
Yes.
The thing of it all is that ,geographically,
you have to have a real large feature to be able
to see it very far out in front of you, like the Red
Sea.
Now when I was trying to find Cairo
one 1;ime, I looked out I was having trouble
finding the Red Sea.
Pretty soon I found the Red Sea
about 30 degrees below the horizon or maybe a
little more.
As I got closer, of course, the
Red Sea stood out very well.
As we get closer
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