Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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any things that might not be understood too
well in the procedures .
So this is where, I
think, that t he people giving this information
in D- 6 never were with it--as far as get t ing
the information ready for us for it .
Very good .
I concur completely.
In the future I think the experiments should
be firmed up by six weeks prior to flight and
the procedures should be well in hand at that
time.
They shouldn ' t drag on and be dragging
on right on down to a few days before the launch,
which is exactly what happened on D- 6.
Okay.
Equipment .
We had some of the equipment
available to us as early as six or eight months
before the flight .
Other equipment kept dragging
in until the very last day, just about.
I don ' t
beli eve that you can get the training equipment
available to the crews too early.
We found our­
selves , in many cases , with the training equip­
ment locked up out at the Cape for safe keeping-­
so safe that we couldn ' t even get to it , and we
didn ' t get a chance to use it the way we should
have .
I think only by a lot of noise ma.king, I