Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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ting it .
I thought this was very good.
We had
another briefing on experiments in the flight
plan review about six weeks before the flight,
and we had another experiments review about
ten days to two weeks before the flight .
Again,
I felt that each and every one of these was
certainly time well spent.
I think that,
probably,the first experiments briefing might
have taken place a little sooner.
White
I've got a comment on D-6 here.
Ten days before
the flight, they came in with the infor mation
for D-6 and said, "How do you want to run the
tracking on D-6 and send the infor mation up?"
This was not the time to bring up this type
of information or try to make this type of
decisions.
These decisions should have all
been firmed up at the six- weeks briefing, and
this is what the six-weeks briefing was for.
It was to tell us how we were going to run our
experiments. After that time there weren 't
supposed to be any changes to the procedures ,
and 10 days before the flight was just to
incorporate any last-minute changes a.nd solidify