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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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115 left- hand food box in addition to the defecation gloves and the urine sample bags. One thing we :might note is the horrible odor every time we opened those boxes to put some thing away. Lovell It was a necessary evil, Frank. Borman We were a little concerned when we opened the vents on the boxes for the reentry that the smell might be with us for a couple of hours, because we had to open them early before we put our suits on. But evidently the vent is just fine. It is large enough that it equalized the pressure, but it is not large enough that it lets the odors escape into the cockpit. e.9 Biomedical Oral temperature measurements and thermo.meter, no p:roblem. Although, it seems strange to .me that we have to have a TM temperature. That thing got in the way. Lovell Yes, the tube got in the way and floated around, and you almost poked your eye a couple of times with the thing. I t is a thin probe. It is very awkward because there are two of them. One is in the lightweight headset, and i f you do not have the suit on, you have to stick it down through here. If you have the helmet on, it is supposed to be sticking out here, and it gets in the way. If they want inflight te.mperature , we should take along a regular
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