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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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167 period, was that we did not want to have the people say, "Well, you did not run it the whole time so the experiment was not valid." We left it on and put up with it in the hope that we could get rid of it once and for all. Lovell Obviously, it did not work. :Borman So far as we know it did not make any dif£erence. And it did not seem to make any difference inflight or post flight. Lovell It was a waste of time. 11.10 In-flight exerciser (M-3) :Borman It is a valuable piece of equipment. We used it not only for the crew status passes, we exercised with it 3 times a day and I thought i t was vecy worthwhile. It is a simple piece of gear but it is a good device. Right? Lovell Although, I imagine we can improve on exercise equipment in the future spacecraft. :Borman Perhaps, the biggest deteriorati on that we noted in the muscles was in our legs, and that exerciser was-I do not know how you can improve on that much. 11.11 In- f l i ght phonocardiogram (M-4) and In-flight sleep analysis (M-8) Borman Well, the equipment problems with M-8 were that the thi ng is operationally incongruous. You cannot have those
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