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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
98 Borman The onboard cues for monitoring the el ectrical system are adequate. We found out one thing in this f light , t hat is the Delt a Plight s really don't mean a lot . We had been told before the flight never to purge if you had a Delta P light. We ended up violating every s i ngle one of t he ca.r- dinal rules that we had. I think the t hing to note about the entire electrical syst em was the f ine work done on the ground. They came up with solutions. They evidently were running s imilar t ype cel ls a t MAC, St. Louis, and they kept them working f or l onger than they should have. Fuel cel l operation, as far as I was concerned , Section 1 was i deal. Section 1 maintained its share of the load the whole fl ight. Section 2, we lost stacks 2-A and 2-C event ual l y, I believe on about the 12th day. I was a little concerned on the 13th day with the sta t us of Secti on 1 because we had had a delta Plight on Section 1 f or t he firs t time and we had been running almost 24 hours. But, t he ground came through and read us up a technical report from St. Louis that explained the whol e thing. I t made me feel a lot easier when they did that. Rather than having t he ground comment blindly on it, "the fuel cells are going to be good for 24 hours," I would like t o get a
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