Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965
NASA-UAP-D020 · page 147 of 325
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- •• 142 Cooper FCSD Rep Cooper FCSD Rep Cooper already gone through all the sequences ~1d everything by then. Okay, let's see. Designated targets- I think you have covered that pretty much. Yes , all the targets. The targets that they have designated versus what •• Yes . Okay, well the designated targets- - There are some al ternate targets right in the are1:.s here that I ' ve already mentioned. I mentioned a c:ouple of cases there that could possibly be bettnr targets than the ones that they selected, although there is nothing wrong, particularly, with thr, ones that they selected. I personally liked a little bit better than on target 212, or Sequence 212, this point of land. I thought a little more distinctive was the point of land that came out of a l ittl e town called San Pedro, just north of there on the same lake. That 's spmething to consider. It's a point of land that is quite distinct because it is fairly heavy. A big mountain sort of c:ame right down into the lake and dropped off into it , and it · was quite a prominent point of land. ::t is very shear and precise, whereas, it is a l i ·;tle bigger point. Although, from a great distanc,~ farther out,