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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
109 Room was dismantled, was not there this time. Intensity control was good, no problem. We had two white lights in the center cockpit, this was our request a long time ago, and after using it I think we ma.de a mistake. We never did use the thunderstorm light that we stuck in place of the red light. Right now Frank and I think we could have used the red light again because we both did use red lights a lot more than we thought we were going to, for night work. It gets your eyes accustomed to the night, and you can see the airglow and stars a lot better. If you have bright lights on in the cockpit , at night, with glare off the window and your eyes adjusted to the white lights, you could never see out. It ' s just black. Onboard data: checklist cards preparation, excellent. I think the people who made them up , Chuck Stough, has to take a personal bow because I think that he did an outstanding job of making up all the onboard data books and cards. They are very, very good. What we did was, tear off the lift-off cards prior to reentry and just had the reentry section, so we wouldn't get mixed up. There are several minor things which we could change to make it a little bit more compatible , like getting one card with all the data on it so we didn't have to flip the cards back and forth when MCC gave it to us. As a matter of fact that i s exactly what I ended up doing,
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