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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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102 Borman GLV fuel and oxidi zer pressure gauges were nominal. The concept of sticking the decals on the outside of the gauge is poor at the best. But, we all know this has been done, and they're not going to change the gauges, and it worked fine. I would suggest never going this way again. I think we ought to change the meters in the future. Borman The alti meter worked fine. The only problems we had with the altimeter was when we were oscillating violently on the drogue , it was not indi cat i ng descent. As soon as the drogue oscillations st eadied out , the alti meter came down very well. Rate of descent indicator was likewise. As a matter of fact, I can't tell you what the r ate of descent · was after we opened the main chute. The main chute was so good when we looked at it. We didn't see any gores or frays. And when we went to s i ngle point release, I didn't even look at the rate of dascent indicator. Did you? Lovell I couldn't see it. Borman Did you even think about it? Lovell No, you mean to tell me you didn't look at the rate of I descent indicator? Borman We could tell from the altimeter we were going down very slow. The acceler ometer seemed to give us slightly lower values thttn the recorded. I think on the reentry the highest value we got was 3.9 g's. During launch the highest that
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