Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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fast .
As long as they weren't there, they
couldn' t update that simulator.
Another thing
that I 'll,for the life of me , never understand
is wher e in the world the food boxes were for
that simulator down there.
I think somebody
should explain just why it took about one month
to locate a pair of food boxes and put them on
the simulator down there. It was the only way
that we could actually work on the storage of
the pieces of equipment for our flight, and we
didn't get a chance to look at that until what
I consider too short a period of time prior to
launch.
Yes. It seemed like t hese food boxes were ordered
a year in advance, and they never showed up. It
looked like there was a complete lack of follow­
up on somebody' s part here.
Then it turned out
that they did find the food boxes but didn ' t
release them to the Cape simulator quick
enough.
I came home here to Houston and found
that we had a complete set of good food boxes
in the Houston simulator; whereas,the one down
at the Cape did not have any at all .
This sort