Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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I think the prime example we had of any
difficulty in map locat ion was not on the Apollo
maps themselves , but i t is exactly the srune kind of
thing.
What was that one that had the lit tle i sland?
Conrad
Lake Depoopo .
Cooper
No, no . It had one tiny l i ttle i sland right off
t he coast and it wasn't on the Apollo mapB . It was
the-­
Conrad
It was a D- 6.
That was that thing off BrE,zil. That's
all it was . It was a chart of water with an i sland
in the middle of it. It turned out that right at
the edge of the chart was another island.
We took
the wrong island first because, heck, it looked l ike
there wasn ' t another island-­
Conrad
I'm just making this comment because it will apply
to the Apollo map making, as well, and this was an
ideal example of how t o really screw somebody up.
Cooper
We al so got another isl and right up there.
We got
it and we were sail ing along thinking that was a
good shot we made of that island, and we fooked
down and I said, "Hey, look down there. What ' s
that. That ' s another one." I swung over on it,
and he said, "Let's get it, too ." So , we discovered