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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.
“Mission Control”5 pages
103 was recorded on the a~celerometer was about 6.75 g's. I understand that the actual value was over 7. On the nominal profile, it i s. Lovell Was the reentry a little higher than 3.9? Borman I don ' t know, I doubt if it was, it was so near ful l lift. Switches and circuit breaker panels. We had a coupl e of cases knocking of f circuit breakers. We did have one fuel cell control ci rcuit breaker pop on us twice . Lovell I am not real sure i t popped. I don' t know whether I hit it ina.dvertantly twice. Borman No, you didn't. The second time I watched it pop. Other than that, I thought the switches and circuit panel s were well located. I think it i s very important that we have those guards on there, particularly with changing suits. Lovell The fuel cel l switches, the power and control switches, should be LIFT to move switches. They should be over center locks that you have to lift to move them up. There was a guard over i t, but still it was so easy to reach up there and hit those things . I was a l ways worried about throwi ng the control switch of f, which would have really foul ed up the fuel cells. Borman You mean like the squib switches? ... Lovell Yes , like the squib switches. I think that is the way they ought to be ~ecause you never touch them unless deliberately.
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