Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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and we did indeed go make a couple of dry runs
and a couple of wet runs on the x-ray table to
make sure that we could get it done quickly.
think this paid off.
We never had any delay due
to these x-rays .
We certainly all knew how to
use the exerciser.
And the phonocardiogram
needed no practice. S- 5 and S-6 did not r equir e
any training here on the ground , because these
were supposed to be photographs from orbit.
That thing was impossible to simulate on the
ground. The D-8 required no simulation, so it
boiled down to D-6, D-1, and D-9 as the exper i ­
ments that required simulation prior to flight.
As we said earlier, we felt that the. Translation
and Docking Trainer and the Martin Denver simu­
lation for the D- 6 experimentwAre very valuabl e.
·They gave us the techniques that we needed to
perform this thing in space. Gemini Mission
Simulator was invaluable, too, for everything-­
for experiments , operational checks and for the
whole mission.
White
As far as any really D-9 work, though, with the
simulator, all we could go t hrough wer e kind of