John Company

Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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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,