Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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some prominent featu:res along coastlines in Africa.
We
have them logged and we will be able to go over them with
t he Apollo landmark people. Even an area like Dakar, which
you would think would be a r elatively clear area, we tried
three times to photograph and each time it was cloudy.
Lovell
Mostly in the afternoon.
Borman
The maps and Apollo landmark data package was all right.
One of the problems with the maps was it is difficult to
orient the map segments on the page, so that several of the
targets were anywhere near the middle of the map.
You might
end up with a map with an Apollo landmark right on the edge
of it. It is then difficult to associate the surrounding
terrain with it.
The big map that we had in the front of
the book solved a lot of this problem.
We could get the big
picture from the big map and then go to the detailed one for
the detailed pictures.
Borman
Photographs, 350 and 352, the Cairo area, you don't need a
photograph of the Nil e River running into the Mediterranean.
That was one of the most prominent features we had. The
Suez Canal , the Red Sea, and the coast of Arabia were loud
and clear the whole flight. The junction of the two rivers,
the white Nile and the blue Nile, were also very prominent.
Again, you did not need a photograph to