Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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thruster that failed.
I used it quite a bit
shortly before the flight to practice the dock­
ing and the station-keeping that we never r eally
got a chance to perform in flight .
I felt that
it was quite valuable for this .
Yes .
I think that it ' s a very good simulation ,
too , of the actual way the spacecraft really
moved.
Yes.
I think it is t oo.
I t hink it is too .
Anything else on Translation and Docking
Trainer ?
No .
Planetar ium.
I think it's ver y valuable training.
We used
this one down here in Houston , and we used the
Morehead Planetarium.
There ' s not a bit of
question in my mind which one you ought to use,
and it ' s Moreheady because the display of the
stars is about as close as you can get to the
r eal stars out in the sky; whereas,in the one
down in Houston the projection of the stars
just doesn't have the quality to provide the