Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

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couldn 't do any more than look out.
You couldn't aim at a particular point and correct for-
No, because it amounted to looking over this way and then controlling the
spacecraft back that way.
In addition to that, you had up and down, which is worse.
A redu ed .
That' s the reason I asked the question.
I wondered i f you had used that
paJ:rti cular thing and whether it was useful.
You could see what you were looking at, yes, but, controlling a space­
craft, no.
I think you could have ma.de a little near - actually got around
to t hat part of it . .... you did the first time.
But if you wanted
to t ake a picture of s specific object, and one person was controlling
t he spacecraft and the other person was going to take the picture, he
could take the pictures when he saw them in the viewer .
control
the spacecraft too it would be a ­
One other point i s how accurately do you think you can point a photo-system
with the optical site'
Cert ainly with .:ta half a degree.
Plus o minns half ad gree .
robably l os than that.
Maybe on the order of a quarter.
Do you have a picture of the site again?
No, we don't.
There ' s a dt fercnce between the open bars on the site .
Do you hav~ to go, Bill?
No, I don 't .
can give you n b tter answer if you come and ask me in a day or t wo
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