Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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and closer and closer, these things really star t
standing out, but when you' re looking from up
around 125 or 150 miles , and you're out 60 degrees,
you' re a long way from your target.
It ' s just
that you can' t see that far through all that
atmosphere, I guess .
I think one more comment on the geographical is
that I think we ' re really going to see some things
down there when we get some type of magnification.
Yes, a telescope is what you really need.
If you can get some kind of telescope to help, I
think we can really see something.
I wonder if
there isn' t some way that, while we know we can't
carry some things inside the spacecraft, we can
work with something outside the spacecraft- ­
camera equipment or some kind of optical equipment.
that we might be able to have mounted on the out­
side .
We can store it somewhere and mount it on
the outside after we get up there--mount a
tel escope right through, with the eyepiece on the
inside .
Boy that would be great ! Wouldn't it?
And then when it comes time to come in, you just
punch the thing off and forget about it.
But