Mission Planning Plan For The Fourth Manned Gemini Flight Crew Gemini 7
Mission Planning Plan For The Fourth Manned Gemini Flight Crew Gemini 7
Mission Planning Plan For The Fourth Manned Gemini Flight Crew Gemini 7
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1.0 SUMMARY
This training plan outlines crew preparation plans for the 1^-day
Gemini VII Mission. The flight plan includes postinsertion station
keeping maneuvers with the second stage of the launch vehicle and a
wide variety of operational checks and experiments.
A summary of the crew time planned for each major training activity
is shown in figure k-~L.
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2.0 INTRODUCTION
7. Crew members and FCSD training personnel will review this plan
periodically. The training coordinator and the crew will meet informally
each Monday morning to review the training planned for the coming week
and discuss the training accomplished the past week. The crew commander,
assisted by the training coordinator, is responsible for accomplishing
the activities shown in figure k-2.
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7. Simulated flight
The flight crew will use the Gemini Mission Simulator (QMS) to
provide them with extensive experience in the normal and abnormal, oper-
ation of the spacecraft systems as applied to the Gemini. VII flight plan.
This program consists of ^1 sessions. Simulator hours are not signifi-
cant with regard to the training accomplished; hence, no .times are. listed.
For planning purposes, sessions are assumed to be 2-hours long;
Briefings:
Session 2 - Sequential
Session 4 - Electrical
Session 5 - Attitude control and maneuver electronics (ACME)
Session 6 - Failures - sequential and electrical
Session 9 - Communications
During launch and reentry simulations, the crews will occupy their
respective seat positions. Upon completion of each launch or reentry
simulation, the crew will participate in the postsimulation discussion..
During the simulated network simulations, the crew will practice count-
down, launch, the more important orbital tasks, and reentry in con-
junction with the remote simulated site teams. No crew participation
in the network simulations is planned. Integrated simulations requiring
crew participation are:
Morehead Planetarium, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and the Gemini mission
simulator and Gemini part task trainer incorporating the out-the-window
optical display.
The flight crew will complete a Gemini egress and recovery oper-
ation utilizing Boilerplate no. 201 and Spacecraft Static Article no. 5>
if available. A brief outline of the program is as follows:
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