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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
116 thermometer. We had a lot of glass in the cockpit. I do not see why we cannot carry some sort of a plastic thermo meter. It seems ridiculous to me to have to TM a temperature, Borman I must admit I did not even know I had a blood pressure cuff on except when I filled it up. It did not cause any skin problems or anything. It is probably as good a way as we can go. Lovell It seemed like I pumped up nzy- cuff a lot more inflight than I had to on the ground for the same measurement. Sometimes we would not get the comment that, your "cuff is full" from the ground until after your arm was quite puffed up. Some times your arm really got to be sore. I do not know what you can do about it. Borman We used the M-3 equipment not only for the medical or the crew status passes, but we used it regularly three times a day. It is a very valuable piece of equipment. It ca.me in very handy and it certainly was useful for this reason. guess there is some reason for it for medical data. I did not understand why we could not stow it the last day. We had already checked and they sai d, "All right, go ahead and stow it, you do not need it." Later they said, "You have to unstow it. We want to get one more pass on you the last morning of the flight." After 14 days of flight I did not understand why we needed it, but we did it. Jim left it out, I
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