Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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12.6 Training Activities
McDivitt
White
McDivitt
Well, I wouldn' t do anything differently.
Jim, I wouldn't either. That 's one of the
highlights, I think, of our mission that we
were well trained for it; and I felt in all
respects we were well trained.
I don ' t be­
lieve I ' d add anything extra, and ther e 's
nothing I think I ' d take out, either.
Well, I think that the training went along just
about as we'd planned it and hoped it would
work.
I do feel that the simulators didn't
provide us quite the training that we needed
early enough in the program.
I think the
simulator here in Houston was too busy inter­
facing with MCC and switching from one
building to another and updating to "5"
configuration and a whole bunch of other things .
We never really got it the "4''. configuration.
The one down at the Cape took too long too convert
from the GT-3 to the GT- 4 configuration.
As a
matter of fact, as ea~ly as about two weeks
before launch I had done four reentires on the
simulator down there.·