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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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141 I don't know what else to say, as far as we lmow, every thi ng was perfect, it's all logged, they have the records, they have the TM. Lovell We saw the needle go down when we jettisoned the fairing cover after the fifteen second timer delay, after we did our separation maneuver. I saw the cover go by when we jettisoned. Borman Did you? Lovell It is r ight above the right hand window. Borman I did not s ee tha t . The booster measurements were no problem at all. It was ju.st like the wa;y the simulator worked. It was just fine. Very good. We had no problems making t he reticle measurements. They were very close to zero on both the IR and the spectrometer. Power- down procedures. Did you have any? Lovell No. Booster background measurements were no problem at all. Borman Okay. The Milky Way measurement without the cooled sensor was performed exactly on t ime. We had no problems with the equipment. No problems with any of this.
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