Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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McDivitt
White
McDivitt
30 degrees south, and that sure isn't what we needed.
I think that there wan't any imagination used here.
I just feel that the people who were responsible for
perfonning this duty fell down on the job completely,
and did nothing whatsoever but talk about it.
When
we really got around to flying this thing they didn ' t
have a thing for us .
It turned out that t he peopl e
who finally ginned up the maps for us were the
people from the Department of Defense Off ice here
who were monitoring the thing from the technical
standpoint.
I sort of felt that this target '
acquisition stuff was a function of FCSD , and as
a matter of fact the people who were concerned with
it led me to believe this. When we got around
to flying the flight, we found that there wasn't
any way to acquire these targets.
They hadn ' t done
any work with it at all, so I think t hat this is
a real low point in the FCSD.
They didn't even have what I would consider a
satisfactory method of calling the infonnation up
to us.
No, to put it bluntlY, it was screwed up and un­
worked upon.
I think the planning for all the
other experiments was adequate.