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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
171 • Lovell Borman Lovell :Borman Lovell consider using that gun again is to read down a daily counter number, and let the people use that as a--we ra.n into a regular nightmare. Recording drinks used and drinks.••• It was too much. I think our water intake was adequate. And again I do not think this is something we need to be hounded about from the ground. A person seems to have enough problems without being reminded that he is drinking enough water; I do not see any reason at all to have this com~ plica.ted bookeeping system. The food intake was not a problem. We recorded the food. One thing we might note, the food was pa.eked out of sequence. So when we got it out, we did not end up eating Day 1, meal A, B, C, Meal 2, A, B, C, but we did always eat Meal A first, Meal B the second meal of the de.y, and Meal C, the third meal of the day. Although, it might be day 1, meal A, day 13, meal E, and day 6, meal C. Also, while we are talki.ng about food, we better talk about the stowage of the food. It was right up to the maximum. That is right. And in fact it was a little bit overboard for 14 days.
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