Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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14.0 TRAINING
14.1 Gemini Mission Simulator
McDivitt
Okay.
Over on Training now.
The first topic
is Gemini Mission Simulator and I think we
touched lightly on this subject already. I
think that it's an excellent trainer for pro­
cedures, system knowledge, launch, orbit,
retrofire, reentry, and crew stations. I think
t he big problem with it is that it takes too
long to turn it around.
I think that we're fool­
ing around with it too much, c~mmitting it to
supporting other functions besides flight crew
training.
The simulator at the Cape was sup­
posed to have been turned around at roughly
two weeks after GT-3's launch, and about six weeks
after the launch it still w~en't doing it~s job.
When we went down there to start flying this
completely checked-out simulator, we found that
the launch phase worked, the orbit phase did
not work, and the reentry phase did not work.
After we got the orbit phase squared away, we
found out that· we kept losing reentry eomm;:i.nd
system.
We couldn' t use Direct Control Mode
in anything.
We never did fly reentries
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