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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
175 12.1 Lovell Borman Lovell Borman Lovell 12 . 2 Borman 12 . 0 PREMISSI0N PL.ANNING Mission Plan (Tra,jectory) Well , of course, it varies here , this is the last. It changed. We had o.ne all wired and writte.n up £'or a. 72 degree launch azi muth and this changed with the addition of the GT- 6 mission. But I thought the people were very f lexible, and adapt ed rapi dly to the change. Well, ~e are talking about the mis sion plan , and they a:re talking about the trajectory alone. There is no doubt about it t hat our mission , as origina lly set up for our fuel , was adequate. But ,when we introduced GT-6 and the rendezvous mission, the a.mount of experimental work which we had to do also was not reduced at all . This compromised the results of our experimental work by having to use the fuel for the rendezvous . Although , I think the rendezvous was i mportant , or t hat it was higher priority, I would like to have it put on the record, that the results we gathered from the rest of the flight were not as good as could be expected, because of the fact that we just did not have the fuel. 110 pounds of gas went down the drain, too. Yes. Flight Plan I thought the people did a great job there.
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