Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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Borman
I was really surprised at that.
14.5 Planetarium
Lovell
The Planetarium is one which I have to admit I degraded
for the last trip. I said I didn't want to go and we
weren't going to go. Then we decided we'd better go,
and I think right now it was well worth it. The last
trip to the Planetarium was the best one.
Borman
We got more dope on the actual orbit.
We
had settled
on our flight path, and they displayed it, and it was
amazingly accurate.
Lovell
We worked out our initial burn at the Planetarium,
the stars we were going to burn on for our perigee
adjust burn.
I took a cha.rt along that I ma.de up at
the Planetarium to use for the zero, seven, and four­
teen days in t he celestial sphere. It
worked
out
fine.
When
you go
there, that's what
you have to do.
You
have to
take
the azimuth
that
you
are
going
to
launch on,
take all the charts that
you
are
going to have;
and run through that type
of .mission.
To go there and just learn all the stars
I
might be okay for basic training like we did several