Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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cursory procedures .
There was no star field or
anything to utilize, which I think would be
useful . If we had a decent star field , we could use it
out of the GI'1S . Also , on D-6 the GMS did not provide
us anyt hing we could use. Ther e were procedures ,
right .
And like you said, the Translation and
Docking was all right for D-6 , but, practically,
we had no simulator anywhere that gave us any­
thing that I could get out for D-9.
Okay.
Are we through with the briefings?
We
had a real major briefing that lasted t hree or
four days here at the Manned Spacecraft Center
about four months prior to the flight .
Wasn' t
it , Ed?
Yes .
Well , was it that long? It was in March
or April--March wasn ' t it? Somewhere around
there.
I thought it was later than that .
We had our
first real major briefing three months before
the flight,on the 8th
of March, and we had the
experimenters come to Houst on and go over their
experiments in great detail to explain what they
wanted and how they wanted us to go about get ­