Posts: 289
From: Adelaide, South Australia
Registered: Apr 2005

posted 08-15-2021 04:59 AM            

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Apart from the primary purpose of survival training, was the pairing of two-man crews in desert and jungle survival training sessions in any way used as compatibility tests for future Gemini crews? And is there a list somewhere of the pairings?

I believe it was Michael Collins with Bill Anders and John Glenn with Neil Armstrong in the jungle and Michael Collins with Charles Bassett in the desert, etc.

Posts: 701
From: Sacramento, CA
Registered: Jun 2001

posted 08-15-2021 04:10 PM               

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That's an interesting question, and of course neither of those two pairings turned into a crew, but that would be a wild way to determine compatibility.

You are right, Collins was paired with Anders in the jungle and Bassett in the desert. He never mentioned any suspicion that it had a crew compatibility evaluation factor.