Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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When it arrived down at the Cape, it was com­
pletely inadequate for the job, and I can' t
understand why that program wasn ' t checked out
in better shape when it went down there..
White
I think, also, they're caught as second-rate ci­
tizens as far as keeping their simulators up to
date and getting the latest spacecraft changes
in them.
They seem to be way behind t he space­
craft and indicated to me that the system did
not permit them to update the simulator wit h t he
speed with which it ought to be updated to t rain
the crews properly.
The things that were
characteristic of Gemini 4 were being incor­
porated in the simulator down there in the last
two or t hree weeks when they should have been
incorporated in the first two or three weeks
after the changeover from GT-3 to GT-4 ,
I think
we just have to work on a faster processing of
the changes in getting the pieces of equipment
and the changes out to the simulator so that
they can be incorporated in it. Once they got
the changes down there, they got them incorpor­
ated into the simulator, seemed like, pretty
-COIS~FIOEI\ITIAL