Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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years ago. After you get assigned to a specific
mission,
you better
start learning the stars
you need to use for certain burns and things of this
nature. That's a good place to do it. I thought
pe~haps, since we had the visual display, tba.t we could
eliminate the Planetarium because the visual
display had more real feel for it, and it does.
However, the visual displays in the simulators don't
carry the .magnitude of the stars that you can actually
see.
Borman
And they are not flexible enough.
Lovell
Tba.t 1s right. They are not flexible .
Borman
You can't change them.
Lovell
So the Planetarium. was helpful .
Borman
Spacecraft orientation.
As Jim said, we studied the
burns and .ma.de the first
two
burns
on the stars.
The Planetarium
was very helpful for this.
Remember,
you were all set to find Corvus
and then Spica and we had it all lined up before we
ever launched.
14.6 Systems Briefings
Borman
We
had. one hundred and twenty - six hours
and thirty .minutes of systems briefing'S and