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This is a preliminary transcript of the Gemini 7 technical debriefing, dated December 23, 1965, from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It was made from tape recordings of the crew debriefing held December 19 to 21, 1965 at the Crew Quarters, Cape Kennedy, Florida. In it, Frank Borman and Jim Lovell go through countdown, powered flight, insertion, station keeping with the booster, systems, experiments and training. The table of contents also lists a section on visual sightings during orbital flight.
From the source:Release of 2026-06-12 Incident: December 19-21, 1965, Cape Kennedy, Florida. This document is a preliminary transcript derived from voice recordings of the Gemini 7 flight crew debriefing conducted December 19-21, 1965, at the Crew Quarters, Cape Kennedy, Florida. Lights and flashes are mentioned and there is discussion about having proper illumination for vehicle docking. Borman and Lovell discuss celestial and terrestrial observational anomalies and note sightings of Mercury, meteors, aurora, and lightning. They also discuss not being able to see any stars once the Sun comes up.
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90 " orma.n Yes ..here it is here•••it was 158 hours a.nd 27 minutes when we got up, a.nd we had a. wall temperature of 64 degrees and a. pilot ha.tch temperature of 66 degrees. Comparing this with 144 hours and 5~ minutes, the hatch temperature had been 84 degrees, so there was a. 20 degrees drop du.ring this one evening. ~ I attributed this, plus the fact th.at we no ticed la.:rge drift rates when we woke up, to the fact that the water boiler must have been opera.ting during the night. It was the only time during the flight that we noticed these large drops in tempera.ture.•. the very cold wall tempera.tures. We were on double loop, B pumps most of the time. Finally, went to A pump twice in the flight when people were in the suits in order to at~ cool. We went to double A pumps, of course, when we were powered up. Lovell We bad one time when we bad one A pump on. :Borman Twice we had it on. Lovell Twice, but just one primary pump. We did not go to two A pumps. l3orma.n No. A pump in the primary loop was on twice to keep cool. Lovell Right. The second.a.ry loop A pump was not on. Borman Never on except during periods when the platform we.a running. Lovell Right. Borman Now, as I mentioned before, when we were running both B
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