Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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until shortly before the actual flight , at which
time I think I had four total reentries about
a week before the flight.
Ed said he only fl ew
four reentries on the simulator at the Cape in
total .
I probably flew fifteen, I would guess.
That ' s total , so I think that the Gemini Mission
Simulator fell down completely in preparing us
for this flight .
Well , not quite that bad, Jim.
Well .
Okay.
We did get a lot of training
from it, but I think that the tum-around time
is completely inadequate. It made the job for
the flight crews a lot tougher than it should
have been.
I don ' t know really what the problem is, but I
think the people down there are working hard ,
and when things were working right, the train­
ing was outstanding.
But, gee, there 's just too
much time when things weren't working right.
That's right.
I think that's a good point to
make.
People down at the Cape try very hard,
and I don't think it's their problem.
The
program for the Cape Simulator was done here.
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