Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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adequately t r ained on every experiment. If I could
comme.nt o.n the one experiment that I thought was
handled in a sort of , I won't say haphazard, but at
l east a rather free style, was the l aser.
We didn ' t
get real pr oper training on that, I didn't get t o
look at the laser until l ater in the game ,
The ground
equipment a t Ascension never did come up, and I think
that if we ar e really going t o make thi s laser work,
we are going t o have t o put more emphasi s on the people
who are running i t, It seems t o me that here we need
some special procedure for training experiments. I t
seems t o me that we went to some places where Mike
was stuck wi th the posi tion of trying t o scrounge people
and equipment or the individual exper iment ers were stuck
wi th it . It seems l i ke ma.ybe Lilly should have been
abl e t o work wi th some section in our organization to
get t he t raining tha t we wanted and get i t set up.
The
way it i s now, for trai ning on experiments, you almost
have t o depend o.n indi vi dual exper imenters and a lot
of the t ime they don't understand at all the pr oblems of
operating a spacecraft. Did you have that feel ing ever,
Mike?
FCSD Rep
Just wi th the MSC-4, We did have a pr oblem getti ng