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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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159 pictures over Brazil that have never been gotten before. They were not called up. We took them with the IR color shifted .f i l m. We go t s ome pictures of Mexi c o t hat were not ca lled up. Lovel l We ·got a good sequence over North Africa. Borman We got s everal good sequences over North Africa.. Lovell But I am sure tha.t they have been used before. Borman We a l so took a seque.nce a l ong the southern coast from New Orleans through Fl ori da using color shifted I R t o eval uate t he f ilm more than anythi ng e l se. I hope this comes in handy. We got some shots of the is l and chai ns off Florida, to see if they can determine any effect from the hurri cane that went through, Betsy. Lovell As a matter of f act, we got a strip s equence of Cuba too . Borman Al l these are target s of opportunity done without atti tude control , but they were all targets that were listed before f l ight. We got the mouth of the Amazon, and I think that i s the firs t time t hat has been photographed. Now on the S-6 the weather photography we tried in the l ast pa.ss to ta.ke a successive revo l ution picture of weather devel opment. Ve got one good shot over the Andee. We a l so got some good shots of wave c l ouds over the Andes during the l atter part of the flight. We l ooked for hurricane or tropical storm Alice in the
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