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[i]We'd develop our own display screens as well. Then we'd test those in simulations and so forth. So that was what the guidance officer's role was. We would have little models, too, for the spacecraft, to figure out what the orientation was in certain parts of the orbit and therefore what should the astronauts be seeing. I remember sitting in the Command Service Module simulator at the Cape with Wally Schirra and Donn [F.] Eisele, and some guys in the sim [simulation] room put in the model of the [Starship] Enterprise [from Star Trek television show]. So we were sitting there. What the guys were seeing was rendezvousing with the Enterprise instead of with the Lunar Module. The heat of the lamps in the simulator started to melt the model. Anyway, I got a kick out of that one. Wright: That's a new effort, wasn't it? To try to rendezvous with a melting object? von Ehrenfried: It would be almost like a warp drive kind of thing. Laser gun had melted the Enterprise. But that's the kind of training that we would get. We were really getting the best training in the world.[/i]
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