Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

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you would visually, you would observe something down below you.

We were essentially doing something like that on our flight - on our flight plan, and we didn't follow it exactly. We were getting information from the ground on when to do certain things. We were essentially doing that.

They told us when we were coming over Carla, a hurricane, and the hurricane name, give accounts of the extensive cloud areas.

It was unfortunate at that time though; there were no characteristic clouds that characterized a tropical storm. There was just a big structure of cloud mass, we took some pictures of it. They don't give you the circulation that you would like to see, but they can tell you - this is what we did on the ground tracking too, they told us where to look to pick up certain targets. We did, we picked up the targets.

We did the same actually with getting into the anomaly. We had requested position versus altitude. We had to change time and run ours down a little bit.

As a matter of fact, we got orbit tracked up there which we couldn't really do a great deal with our own selves because the orbit track had time check right along it and we could independently know at a time when we were coming over an object of interest on the ground. Ed, did you experience any difficulty in operation of the camera? How to erect the camera.

I believe we might have. I am not sure whether we had one or two difficulties with it. When we - I brought the camera back in and gave it to Jim, he said it was set on about......

Not when you handed it to me some time later.

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