Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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14. 9 EgTess Trajning
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the testing.
You know, it doesn't seem to fit in here
anywhere else, but I think maybe at this point
we ought to indicate we attended every one of
the management meetings up there at McDonnell
while our spacecraft was up there progressing
along through the assembly line.
I recommend
that all crews in the future have representation
at all those meetings.
That 's right. The most important meetings I've
ever gone to in my life, at least since I've
come here to the Manned Spacecraft Center, were
those Gemini management meetings up at McDonnell .
I can't express Pnough the· need for a represent~tive
of the flight crews to be there at t}).e meetings.
Egress Training.
I thought the briefings were
excellent , the flotation tank work was excellent,
the Gulf exercise was excellent, and the survival
gear briefing was excellent.
I can't say how
glad I am that we've had this training when we
plopped down out in the Atlantic Ocean and we were
sitting there. Even though we were about to be
rescued , I knew that even if they didn't rescue
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