Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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over the target.
Borma.n
Evidently the people who called them up were taking this into
consideration, because the sun angles for all the Apollo
l andmark attempts were good as far as photography goes.
Sightings were tough on a lot of them, primarily because
of clouds.
Lovell
Apollo landmarks of i nterior Afri ca, whi ch they gave us
several times, (like islands, lakes, Leopoldville in the
middle of the Congo) , were very difficult because there is
nothing down there but jungle and little streams and things.
Borman
By far the best l andmarks are interfaces of beaches and
water.
Lovell
That i s right .
Sandy beaches with blue water. There is
no doubt about that.
Borman
There i s good contrast, and with a good map you do not need
the photographs .
I do not understand the value of the pho­
tographs, I do not see why they do not engage the Army Ma.p
Service to aerial photograph these areas and print the
pictures accordi.ng t o the see.le they want. It would be a
relatively easy j ob to do and certainly would be much less
expensive than taking the fuel to do it on an operational
mtssion.
Borman
The designated targets were clouded over more often than
not. We did take some alternate targets and pointed out