Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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Borman
FCSD Rep
Borman
Lovell
J3orma.n
Lovell
the equipment. All the other equipment seemed to come
in well.
Yes, but we always depend upon the experimenters for
the training.
You lmow, like on the sextant. Maybe
this is the way you have to continue to go.
This is the way the program is set up, for the experi­
menters to actually do the briefing.
Yeah, and then the hardware training. That is the way
it did work. That' s probably the best way.
The
S-8/D-13, we went to the trainer.
I guess what we
are really saying is that we should emphasize to the
experimenter that they have a responsibility for
providing training and for providing training hardware.
That is the big thing. The experimenters, or the
experiments group, has to provide the training to get
adequate results from their experiment.
Otherwise
they are not going to get adequate results.
That is right.
And t he training equipment and the training periods have
to come early enough in the program so that we work out
any problems that evolve. For instance, a classic
example was the laser when we ran into the reticle
problem.
We did not find out until too late in t he game