Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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us a whole day and a half in flight to realized
that these experiments were going to run so
successively close t o one another.
The one thing
that we were not prepared for on the ground and had
to learn in the air was how to organize a series
of di fferent experiments to run them in a row.
I ' m not sure we coul d have figured this out on the
ground.
Cooper
One thing we could have done if we had had the time ,
we could have taken one of these Stateside passes
that we knew would really be cluttered and run
through it in real time.
Conrad
I think the recommendation here is what
should be done in the future for a flight that
had experiments like this one.
I ' d run a
sim-net- sim with Houston.
We had individually
er ected and taken down and put up every experiment
enough times that we had no problem in assembling
anything.
We had no problem in knowing where
everything was, we knew where everything was in the
spacecraft and we got it in the shortest amount
of time as possible even in the f light .
We didn ' t
have any trouble in that way.
The one thing that
we did miss was, and they have a sim net sim of
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