Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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I agree, incidentally on all the Apollo landmarks
landmarks we ' ve got here.
I ' m not sure I agree , in
general, with any of the Apollo landmarks that they
havp .
I think there are lots more distinctive l and­
mark features around the country.
I think that
their idea of selecting a point of land down in the
water is good, but I think that there are numerous
places around the world where , say a large river
comes out and intersects with the ocean naybe at a
point , at a point in a river and things ,f this
type, would be even more distinctive or an inter­
section of a river and the ocean , or an intersection
of something in the type of causeways i n Miami or
the causeways here at the Cape where the;r cross the
water with a very prominent water landma:~k.
They' ll
give you a very accurate telescopic poin-; to sight.
on, whereas the particular points of lancl that they
have selected are not really accurate type sighting
points for real accuracy, I don ' t feel .
They're
r easonably distinctive, but I don ' t thin}: any--nearl y
as distinctive as a lot of other areas around the
country that could be selected.
Okay, why don ' t you look through these things her e
and see if there is anything there that you haven' t
covered.
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