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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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118 Lovell suggestion on the food is that they try to reconfigure the meals so that Meal A is more like you would think of as a breakfast, with :maybe SQme toast, cereal bars, and sausage pattiess rather than fish, potato soup, and clam chowder for breakfast. The idea of .making our day like a regular Houston day was a very, very valuable one. I t would also be rather nice to have the meals correspond to the type of meal you would eat on the Earth. We ought to have a break fast that is brea.kfasts a.nd so on with lunch and dinner. One breakfast we bad shrimp, sauce, peas, and I think potato soup. This is all right, but it would be more desirable to have had something like cereal cubes and sau sage patties and things like that, so.mething you are more used to. The disinfectant pill crumbles. They would crumble when we got them out. The pieces would flbat about, and if they got in your eye they burned because i t i s a chlorine base pill of some sort. It happened to me once early in the flight, and it happened to Frank towards the end of the flight. We had to use the exhaust hoses to vacuum down the spacecraft to get rid of these things so we wuld not get the'!D. in our eyes. I think tha.t we can probably go to eo.me thing better in the future. There is a lot of roo.m for i mprovement in food. It was good. It was adequate. We
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