Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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at night .
The 'l1ranslation and Ilocking Tra±ne~ • was
helpful in station keeping.
We didn' t really do
any training at McDonnell for the experiments.
Lovell
We did mostly the station keeping and the reentry at
McDonnell .
Borman
And you went to Ames.
Lovell
Just for the sextant.
The sextant briefing at Ames I
thought could have been done at Houston. I got more
information out of Bob ~ilva on the roof of the
Cape here , than I did really out of Ames.
The two
I
simulators I used out there really didn't help me out
at all .
I think the simulator and a star field in
the Gemini simulator plus work outside on the roof
would be more valuable than Ames, which I passed on
to Wally and Tom.
Borman
We had many briefings..• Total t i me spent on experi­
ments i s two hundred hours and thirty minutes.
A
great deal of that time was briefing. I felt , that
by the time we took off, we knew not only the pro­
cedures for every experiment, we knew the hows ,
the whys, and the wherefores.
I thought we were