Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

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found the object, and then tracked it all the way. And as soon as they get that film and put the pieces in to make it - it's a sequence camera - it's not a real movie camera - as soon as they put the pieces in and insert the extra frames so it is in such a movie camera, I think you can get a real idea of exactly how long you can see. So if you know how much requirement you have as far as using your instrumentation is concerned, you can tell exactly whether you can or what kind of measurements you can make. Then you can also theoretically figure it out, too.

The big problem is to identify the object . . . If you're looking for a specific object, a certain thunderstorm or the northeast corner of the Red Sea or something, that means that you don't - you're not going to be able to pick it up and aim the spacecraft at it 30° below the horizon.

You're going to have to wait awhile. You're probably not going to get it picked out 'til later, so that your time on the target is going to be less.

Of course, you know the range is changing very rapidly. That thing is below you - say it's right below your track. When you first see out of that 45° it's going to be roughly 200 miles away and if you pass over it'll be 200 miles away. So that the range is essentially doubling. If you're interested in something that requires anything like a constant range, I don't know exactly how you'd do that. This is a problem that you- Dr. . . . . .

Let me try to rephrase that question . . . . . although I think it was answered in the seeing those movies yesterday . . . you were tracking, I think my answer to it was a yes, but let me rephrase the question about

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