Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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Fortunately, I think, that the people that you have to
work with now, Bill Tindall, and Barney Evans, are pretty
good.
One of the first things I would recommend to anyone
to do, is to start talking to the Mission Planning people
as soon as they get assigned to a flight.
From then on,
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keep their fingers on the flight plan.
I think that is
reflected in the amount of time we spent on ours. 133
hours was spent i n that training just on preparing and
reviewing the flight plan.
I think it paid off because
we ended up with one that was reasonable and one that we
coul d work wi th.
I would not call it training though, as
it was sort of doing flight planning.
15.0 CONCLUDI NG COMMENTS
Borman
What else do you have to say James?
Lovell
We are back home, that proves the mission was a success.
Borman
There is one thing that I have to say I think the system
we have set up here in FCSD now to handle these flights ,
this task force organizati on, is outstanding.
I was very
well pl eased with the support we got from everybody.
Lovell
I do not think we could have done it ourselves and having
gone through i t before when we did not have the