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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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93 :Borman I was very pleased with the entire Voice procedure operation a.round the world. I thought they did 8J1 excellent job. We didn1 t have a:ny problems at all. They were quiet when they were requested to be during our sleep period. Lovell They were outstanding. :Borman They were outst&nding, yes. Lovell The voice tape recorder operation was fine. There were no hitches as far as operating the voice recorder. It was easy to, well , that's three feet of change. We used mostly the CONTINUOUS mode rather than the MOMEN111A.RYa I used MOMENTA.RY when we just wa.nted to m&ke a comment. As a. mat ter of fact, I think the MOMENTARY position does save a lot of voice tape, because you dontt have it on and forge t it. However, we had a procedure with the voice tape that was going to record the quantity of urine that was dumped. And this led us to leave the voice tape on quite a long time when we weren't doing anything or saying anythin~-and using quite a bit or tape. I think that i t would be helpful if we had some sort or a little light of some sort to let you know that t he tapes on. When we have a flow meter which was being eval uated for future flights and might be a standard piece of equi pment then it would certainly be nice to have
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