Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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There's one area of procedures and systems training which
can be improved, and that is t he use of more correct
procedures between ground and simulat or. A lot of times
we got into the simulator to do a reentry or launch,
and we didn't get the parameters which you normally get
from Mlssion Control.
There have been five manned l aunches,
with t apes on all of them, where the communications bet ween
the grouno. an:l th,~ spacecraft are well documented.
We
ought t o incorporate those in training.
So you could
copy down updates, you could get the 0 ,8, you could get
systems failures and how the ground handles them, and
things of this n~tu.re.
I think we could simulate them
a lot better now, especially in Houston.
Borman
I think Lynn Taegart was doi ng t hat.
Lovell
Lynn was attempting to follow that procedure,
We
requested th1t they get some tapes from MGC from
G1-5 1s l aunch , but by the time we left there, they
hadn't yet arri ved.
Launch was very realis tic,
Borman
I don't think that we flew a simula tor
with our roll
p~ogram in it and it really
didn ' t make any
difference.
I guess what we are saying about the