Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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was a very, very fine job by FCSD people responsible for
them.
Borman
Data books:
We were using a system that was started in GT-4,
furthered in GT-5 and I think it is working out very well.
If there is any derogatory remarks on it at all, it is the
required amount of logging you have to do. It is really a
double entry system. But, hopefully this will cut down the
postflight activities and give people a better idea of
what they are looking for.
I would not suggest even for a
moment that we change it. We did delete some of the redun­
dancy to endeavor to save voice tape.
We tried to log
everything in the book, but many of the things we did not
put on voice tape that were already in the book because we
wanted to save the tape. We only had 20 tapes for 14 days.
Everything that was done is in the books.
Most of the
critical things that were time significant are on the tape .
Borman
Star cha.rte, Polar and Mercator.
We used the Mercator almost
exclusively.
Lovell
I'm not saying the Polar was not any good, but the Mercator
was very adequate and we knew how to use it. I enjoy that
particular ty:pe of chart a little bit bett er.
Borman
It was preference more than anything else. We did check the
Polar out during flight and it was apparently accurate.
I
didn' t see any reason to change those star charts either,