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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.
168 wires on your head and stringing down the back of your neck, and not expect to catch them on something in a small space craft. Now, we found that we couldn't keep the helmet on. I kept it on for two days, but my head became extremely hot, and I was uncomfortable. So when I took it off I ripped all four of the leads off. And I think that the whole thing is extraneous a:nyway. I felt after 14 days I was perfectly capable to judge my own condition, and my own awareness, and my own degree of alertness I did not need that bunch of wires hanging on my head to tell me or to tell somebody on the ground how awake or how asleep I was. Lovell Inflight phonoca.rdiogram, I have no comments because it was stuck on me at prelaunch, and it stayed on me during the entire flight. Borman Well, did it bother you? Did you get any sensor problems? Lovell No. 11.12 Bioassay body fluids (M-5) and calcium balance study (M-7) Borman Urine samplings bags, well, actually the bags were pretty good. We had one break around the head. Marking was all right a.nd stowage was fine. I might point out that the tracer accumulator we changed with no problem. The mixing bag was all right, but they left out the most important thing here, the condom device that we used to
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 222 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.