Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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Houston s imulator is that we don' t have to keep
it right up to the final confi guration. · It's a
basic trainer.
Borman
It helps a lot to get in there and get the work done,
rather than not be able to get in it because it is
being modified to bring it up to the latest configu­
ration.
As long as the math f low is proper, and the
basic parts are t here, you can almost leave it the
same for every launch.
Lovell
It should be updated as far as basic syst ems.
We
had the fuel cell panel put in ours;
we wouldn' t want
batteries, because of a lot of syst ems training on
fuel cells.
That is important .
We don't have to
have every little item like on the Cape simulator for
initial simulator training.
Borman
I was very pleased with the Cape si mulat or. We've had
very good work out of it, and it was right up to
the l atest s towage configuration.
I believe we were
only shot down on the simulator once. It wasn' t
working perfectly every time we got in it, but at
least we got valuable training out of i t .