Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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like Systems Assurance and so on in St. Louie. It is a
waste of time.
At St. Louis you should plan on covering
the SIM flights , the Altitude Chamber and the Horizontal
SEDR.
And, down at the Cape, I thought even though we
cut out six days of testing and we did not have a Wet Mock,
I saw absolutely no impediment at all to our launch training.
I do not think that any of it is necessary.
I do not think
we cut out one necessary thing.
I think that you could use your t ime more wi sely in simula­
tor training, in recovery training, and in training you
are really going to use than in study of some of the sys­
tems assurance tests where you spend hours in the spacecraft
just throwing switches.
You reach a point there where
you are not learning any more.
I think you should follow, at St. Louis , the SIM flight ,
the Altitude Chamber, and the Horizontal SEDR.
And down
here at the Cape, we want to do the SIM flight, the Joint
Combined Systems test , the EIIV test , and finally of
course, the SIM flight and Stowage Review.
That is somethi ng which we put in, and I think ought to be
included in all._. the stowage is one thing that changes
constantly right after launch, and it ought to be put in
just before launch. A week or so before launch to make
sure everything is correct .