Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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know pretty well what it feels like. I t hink
that it ' s good in moderation, but I certainly
don ' t think that you should over-train on it .
It's not something that you need to train on
every time for every flight.
14,4 Translation and Docking Trainer
McDivitt
Translation and Docking Trainer.
I thought
that the Translation and Docking Trainer was an
excellent trainer for the D-6 pass that we did ,
the Apollo Tracking Pass .
I think that the
simulation that we set up at Martin Denver was
also an excellent tracking task f or this , and I
sort of felt that we got the techniques from
these two t rainers that we needed to successfully
perform this experiment.
White
I have a couple of comments on that .
I felt the
same way.
Of course, we didn ' t have this trainer
used too much for the docking phase, but I thought
it was quite good for the tracking aspects and
also for thruster failure.
McDivitt
That ' s r ight .
It gave you a dynamic simulation
of a thruster failure and what you could do and
what you could notice when you actually have a