# NASA GEMINI & APOLLO PROGRAM ASTRONAUT FLIGHT CREW SUPPORT DIVISION FILM 86144

This color educational film produced by NASA about the Flight Crew Support Division is Report #2, dated December 31, 1964. Flight crew support will be needed for the upcoming Gemini and Apollo operations. Astronauts Edward White (who would die in the Apollo 1 fire) and James McDivitt are shown, who are training for the GT4 flight crew (:35-:47). This division has several experimental and training equipment pieces in Houston, including Gemini mission simulator #2, which is entered by the two astronauts (:49- 1:41 ). The last 100 feet and the docking maneuvers are practiced by the astronauts in the six degrees of freedom Gemini translation and docking simulator ( 1:48 - 2:45 ). The control room monitors the simulation, programmed on an analog computer, and a closed-circuit television provides a exterior view ( 2:45 - 3:00 ). The instructor has a duplicate instrument panel, allowing him to introduce system failures, which the astronauts must address ( 3:01 - 3:27 ). The astronaut must complete the docking and undocking tasks ( 3:27 - 3:55 ). Another docking simulator is cable suspended and known as a moving base docking simulator. It is at Langley Research Center ( 3:58 - 5:02 ). The crews learn flight planning, and shown is the special flight plan readout that is photographed on rolls of 90-millimeter film ( 5:04 - 4:48 ). Flight controllers, shown in the Mission Control Center, have copies of this flight plan. The GT3 flight plan is the blueprint for the first manned Gemini…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: Space, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/86144NASAFlightCrewSupportDivision)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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