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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
143 Lovell You could track the Polaris launch in PULSE. Borman You could track everything in PULSE except the reentry vehicle. The reentry vehicle was pret ty fast and you had to go t o DI:-tECT. Lovell I have to give credit to the personnel, the experimentor , Brent nall. :Borman He hust l ed and he did his work. He made sure that we knew what we were doing. It was well done. Lovell This is the firs t mi ssile t hat was ever l aunched from a submarine, their ORI, I guess. To launch at the exact ti.me so that we would be i n the exac t position, I thought was an amazing piece of coordination among all people involved. :Borman I just hope t hey got all the data.
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