Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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the numbers in the flight plan, and the SIM-NETS with
the entire network.
14.2 DCPS ( Launch abort simulator)
Borman
We used it and it was very effective. It never worked
closed loop as well as i t was supposed to.
We did not have any visual with it, but nevertheless
the runs that we got there I thought were invaluableJ
we certainly could not do without them. The noise
and the sensations seemed as close as you could get
to them without running on centrifuge.
It was a good
program, the tapes were good.
Lovell
I think it is a very necessa.ry simulator. It was not
working completely like we wanted it to work, but it
was just being put into operation when we were at
Houston.
We did not have much of an opportunity to
use it.
14.3 MAC Engineering Simulator
Borman
We ran a whole week at MAC, two days on reentries and
three days on station keeping, and that was a very
worthwhile week. It was concentrated effort, and the
station keeping simulation was as close to what we saw