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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.
96 most of the t ime during the 14 days. We have recorded in the flight book of the flight pla.n--those times th.at it went off and on to the best of our lmowledge. I'm au.re we missed several of them. Borman When we were sleeping particularly. Lovell When we were sleeping we missed them, but it appears to me that there are two things now that these fuel cells have & lot more latitude than we really first realized: 1) We can oper&te with the fuel cells with delta Plights on more than we thought we could. .As a matter of fact , we were doing normal purges with the .t'uel cell delta Plights on whioh the systems book said flatly not to do. But we had some excel lent guidance a.nd assistance from the ground in keeping the sections running. Borman I think so, too. Lovell I think that's what kept Stacks 2C and 2A going as l ong as they did go . The gauge is a little inaccurate to monitor the system. If we are going to have troubles with fuel cells as we did on this flight, and if the ground is going to keep requesting accurate stack a.mp readouts. The gauging system is poor because it is ha.rd to read accurately the amps when they are down in the low 1 and 2 amps. Each indicator is canted a different way-alternately throughout the 6 stack
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