Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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to change anythi ng,
We coul d not put a lighted r et i cle
on the l aser.
:Borman
In all fai rness , we ought t o point out about the l aser
t oo, that i t was severely handi capped when we changed t he
l aunch azimuth. Because ini t i ally they had not planned
t o work anywhere except at Whi t e Sands .
Then with the
change in launch azimuth, Whi te Sands went down the tube
pretty well, then they had t o scrounge around and try
t o get t o Hawai i and Ascension.
The exper i ment equi pment, by and l arge, I thought was
r eadily avai l able on this f light.
Thanks mainly t o Lou
Allen and the pr essure he put on the people.
Training
equipment was pretty well availabl e, early in t he game .
14, 8
Spacecraft syst ems tests
Borma.n
We covered a lot fewer of the spacecraft systeins test s
than previous spacecraft had, based on our experience
on Spacecraft 4.
Let me see exactly wha t i t was .
Spacecraft test s , 169 hours and thi r t y minutes for the
Prime Crew, and 193 hours and 30 minut es for the Backup
Crew.
I do not thi.nk there i s any reason to cover thi ngs