Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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nor is i t fair to the operations people when ex­
periments get cranked in past the experiments freeze
dates .
I feel that these freeze dates shoul d be
establ ished early, agreed to by everybody concerned,
and shoul d be hel d very rigidl y to .
Unl ess a safety
of flight or a significant development occurs
warranting a spacecraft change, the f r eeze date
shoul d be adhered to . If you don ' t , ,you affect
hardware, you affect al l the previous and subsequent
training a..~d planning involved, and you compromise
everything as well as the experiments which did
meet the agreed- to schedul e .
12. 6 Training Activities
Cooper
We were extremely short on time to do adequate
flight plan training.
Although we had it pretty
well in hand, but it was still very marginal .
I
guess it was just as well since circumstances re­
quired considerable real- time pl anning. It woul dn't
do much good to get timing patterns down real pat
on these things anyway.
Usually it boil s down to
doing them real time.
There were several experiments
that I would have liked to have had a l ittle more
time to run practice on the simul ator, or, at l east
sit down and lay out exactl y how we were going to