Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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McDivitt
White
12 .5 ExPeriments
McDivitt
White
So do I .
I don ' t really have any comment.
I
think we had a very good set of mission rules, and
I don't have much else to say about it.
I concur.
I think we set a record on running
through the mission rules review, and I have one
recommendation to make. I recommend highly that the
crew review their rules thoroughly prior to the
meeting and send their disagreements to Flight
Operations Division, so that they can either concur
with them and incorporate them.or disagree and then
iron the differences out on the major things before
you come to the mission rules meeting.
Then,
you ' ll find that you sail right through in just
the first meeting, and this is exactly. what we did.
I think we had some pretty good pre-missi on planning
on our e:xperiments, e~cept D-6 , and I think the
people in FCSD, specificall~ fel l down on the job.
They did not prepare the ns.rget ;cquisition Folders
that we needed.
They arrived down at the Cape
about two weeks be.fore the launch v i th a .foot­
thick pile of maps for us to memorize.
They had a WAC Chart of every place that we were
going to fly over, the -whol e 30 degrees north to