Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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White
14.3 Centrifuge
McDivitt
White
and I together ,in one day,had about 160 runs.
Yes.
Pretty close to that .
Centrifuge. . I think that t he centrifuge
contributed very little to our mission.
I
sort of feel that once you ' ve been on the
centrifuge and you ' ve learned what the effect
of g's are and how to counteract their effect~
that there's not a great deal more to be gained.
I didn't really feel that I got that much out
of the centrifuge t ime.
How about you , Ed?
I think that your orientation in the centrifuge
is very impor tant.
In other words, I think that
it does give you a feeling for what the g 1 s are
going to be like and what the g 's on the lift­
off and reentry are .
I don' t believe there ' s
any necessity for beating your head on a centri­
fuge over and over, running it up there .
I
certainly wouldn't want to go run a series
of runs just before the mission so I ' d know
how it ' s going t o feel on launch, because Ialready
know how it 's going to feel on launch. The first
time you run a few runs on a
ce~trifuge, you