Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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the point they had might have proved to be better.
Maps--Boy, we ran the gamut on them, but in general,
the Apollo maps we got were just stinking.
They
were lousy and they didn ' t give you any lead-ins to
where you were trying to find these things, and if
it hadn ' t been for Harry KazU1DA. ' s map over there
and our regular orbital map, we never would have be­
gun to have found these places .
We couldn't have
possibly told where they were.
And the Apollo maps
that they have on here, these colored lithograph types
gizmoes things, are just worthless .
They are not
worth the powder to blow them up with.
There are
several real typical examples of why these maps are
so bad.
For instance, right here, just on the better
map of the group, they have the Canary Islands, but
they don't even have all of the islands in the group.
The island that you pick is sitting way up here at
the corner of the map and you don ' t know what's
leading you into there, or whether there ' s maybe
another island just right by that one.
You need a
bigger scale map like this one.
That was a little
too big a scale perhaps , really, but that ' s the
kind of map you need to really point out what you
need coming into it, and somewhat of a more reasonable