Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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almost in the McDonnell simulator when we got the
REP out? Just exactly.
That training that we
did up there with the visual presentation was
invaluable .
A lot of people don't realize how time critical
that whole REP maneuver was.
We didn't realize it
even when we ran it at McDonnell.
When we ran at
McDonnell , we had a visual di splay and no outside
encumberances and no other systems.
We had a
computer.
Gordo had a ball and an out-the-window
di splay, a reticle and a hand controlle:c-.
I had
a computer and an MDIU over there and t ·:iat was it.
And we would sit there, shoot the breez,= , talk to
the guys out the window and run that tb:i.ng.
I
don' t think we became aware of how crit :i.cal it was
until we came down to the Cape and got :m that
first sim-net -sim.
Then we had the ground honking
on the horn.
They wanted information.
We had a
spacecraft around us in the GMS , and theiy could
throw in little cliches every once in a while,
which t hey did. It turned out that we e~t little
cliches in flight starting out.
The one• thing that
we spent an awful lot of hours on was the REP.