Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965
NASA-UAP-D021 · page 196 of 222
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186 Borman We got a lot of good reentries. Lovell Well, that ' s procedures. We got a lot of good reentries, and we got a lot of good lift-offs with the trainer. One thing that helped us out quite a bit on procedures was the visual displays. Borman For stowage we kept the wooden mock-up in Houston up to our configuration. It came up better than I 've ever seen it before. We did several exercises on the Gemini Crew Station Mock-up. We used that as distinct from the simulator for stowage. Lovell The stowage mock-up was also used for ex:periments, to copy down updates, to put together equipment, to find out what electrical leads went where, and to practice using equipment inside the spacecraft. That wey we didn't have to tie up the valuable Gemini Mission Simulator, that had a lot of electronics attached to it , with training that required only a simulation of space and envi r onment. We acquired a pretty good knowledge of the systems with the si mulator.