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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.
“Frank Borman”10 pages
94 some indication if the tape is on. On long flights you can't ha.ve the tape on all the time like the short flights- you ha.veto conserve tape. Cartridge change was no problem. The controls were adequate. Data Recording? We tried to record as much data as we could. :Borman We didn't indulge in a l uxury many times of recording both in the log book and on the tape. We only had 20 tapes for a 14 day mission. If we got a good representation of it in the log book-we didnJt put it on the tape. Now, we find out we probably brought back some unused tapes, too. Lovell We did. It was hard for a 14 day mission to adequately budget the tape. We would try to budget it so th.at we could get the in:f'orm&tion on there 'Without leaving long periods of inactivity on the tape. However, we didn't budget it well enough, and we left about 1 or 2 tapes without any record ings. :Borman Digital Command System updates were good, no problem--every thing worked fine. Real-time transmitter, and delay-time transmitter were no problem. As a matter of fact, tb.at whole system I thought was excellent. The only problem we had in the area of Digital Command System or the telemetry was th.at we lost the tape recorder and••• goofed up the de- 1,cy-ed time. The procedure that we worked up for operating
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