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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.
92 hood on. The G5C suit ma.de communications poor, because of the flow of the air to the hood. Other than that I thought the interphone was pretty good. Borman Yes, we should mention the fact th.at the G5C suit with the hood zipped did introduce a lot of noise. Lovell Yes, a feed back into those two mikes and there was a lot of noise. Borman The quality of the interPhone was excellent. With the suits off we didn't use them most of the time, just like t alking in a room, so we didn't need it. My UHF was a little fuzzy during countdown. Lovell Mine was good. :Sorman Yes, yours was good and mine was a little fuzzy. I could hear people all right but they claimed that I was a little weak. In orbit, I just can't say enough nice things about the UHF. Lovell UHF was excellent in orbit for the entire 14 da;ys. v~~~ little static. High quality reproduction. Borman With the squelch on zero. Lovell Right, the s~uelch on zero. Borman The UHF performance during recovery wa.s excellent. No peo blems with that at all. Lovell We did have trouble getting back to Houston.
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