Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Conrad
Cooper
14.10 Egress
Training
parallel testing.
I don ' t feel that the crew really
gets an awful lot out of, out of the spacecraft
systems tests anymore because there are so many
tests going on at the same time that you can't
really keep a handle on what's going o:n and really
get much of a feel for what's going on.
You evolve
t o an automated- type thing of calling three scripts
at the same time and throwing switches and listening
t o quite a complex thing going on.
I think that a
few of the systems tests that still go on such as the
ECS test and the altitude chamber type thing are
still well worthwhile, but I think that the parallel
method of testing has decreased the val ue of the
spacecraft systems test to the crew by great
extent.
There's no doubt about it, though, in l>eing present
you keep them honest on many occasions.
Well , that 1 s right.
On the--it is good in that re­
spect, but as far as the training point of view it
does give you some certain familiarity with the sys­
tems too, but I was just pointing out i:hat it was
decreased over what it used to be.
I really thought our egress training wa.s well wort h­
while- ­
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