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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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178 Lovell Borman Lovell Borman Lovell Borman Lovell Borman Lovell Borman Lovell When we were first introduced to the equipment back at the stowage review up at St. Louis, we didn't lmow enough about the experiment to really analyze the equipment, to find out whether it would be adequate or not. That is right. We should have. picked up the reticle light ing on that. Because we did not pick up the reticle lighting and we did not pick up the green filter. No. The green filter looked all right when we used it on the ground. It is just the fact that we were not able to observe .from .far enough a~ to pick it up. That is right. The lighting contrast ... • .. Also, experiments to the M-1 experiment was sort of a last minute glitch. Yes. We had a lot of compromise. Not compromise but a lot of failures. Putting the M-1 into the ECS system you mean. AlthoulJh, I will have to admit that the whole thing worked out fine. The mechanics of the M-1 experiment did l ast 14 ~sand was absolutely no problem as far as operation of spacecraft or the ECS system.
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