Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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revs 15 and 16. It might have been a good idea
if we ha.d listened to it in that we might have
picked up the fact that the sequential ,::-unning
required just a little bit different opnration.
Again, I'm not sure that you can practice this on
the ground, because at the times we ha.d the gear
out we wouldn't have been able to load any spacecraft
on the ground the way we wound up using it in zero g.
I had lenses floating on the floor and film magazines
hanging by just a couple of little velcJ:o t hreads
on the overhead which you couldn't have done in a
1 g horizontal environment.
You couldn't stow your
gear around the cockpit like you can during zero g.
Maybe you might compromise here.
You mj_ght consider
a sim net sim to get some idea of how things are
going to run into one another, and then if you're
up for 4 days or something like that, yc,u might
take an orbit to lay out a series so y01:.. can learn
how to stick stuff around the spacecraft.. It's
not apparent to you on the ground exactJy how you
wind up storing that stuff.
We really ca.me up with
some new places to stash gear as the re~ult of being
in zero g.
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