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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
95 with Spacecraft 6 in the air, I thought went very well. It posed no problems. Communications Controls &nd Switches Voice Control Center, Audio modes, Keying and Antenna Selec tion, were all nominal. We might mention in Sleep Configu ration--we never used the Sleep switches bees.use we had the situation where we pretended it was night and went to sleep every evening and the ground never call ed us. I don't think they ever violated that for the 14 days. They never called us during the sleep period. Lovell So that worked very well. Borman Beacon Control was no problem. We didn't use the Reentry C-band Beacon until reentry. The TM controls, tr8Jlsmitter, and antenna again were no problem. It was operated just a.a advertised due to all instructions from the ground. 8.6 Electrical Borman Now we have some interesting things to talk about. Lovell Well, we monitored the electrical system pretty closely. Borma.n Yea.h, I guess we did. Lovell The only thing we can say here is reiterate what we have probably said before. On lift-off we had delta Plights come on for fuel cells--both sections. 1 blinked on and off several times and went off. 2 blinked on and off several times and stayed on through insertion and stayed on
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