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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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180 13.3 Consumables Borman My goodness, we had 30 per cent o2 l eft when we jettisoned the adapter. 30 some per cent~ o2 and about 40 per cent ~ hydrogen. The OAMS were a l ittle di fferent situation. We cut that off at about 2 per cent. I was a l ittle dis turbed on the real-time f l ight planning in the l&et couple of d.!cys when t hey were sending up for more experiments than they knew we had f'uel to do . .And telling us to sift them out. This sor t of puts the onus of not doing it on the pilot. I guess in the l ong run i t is the best W8:3' to do it, but they would call up and sa_y-, "well, here is a whole lot of updates that you can do i.f you have t he f'uel." Well, they knew darn well, we didn't have the f'ue l . Lovell That is right. Borman In ma.ny cases it turned out to be weathered a:nywa.y. Lovell And we had been briefed that there was a rather large error in the quantity- Nadout on the quantity gauge, and .fortun ately .for us it l ooked like it was in our favor. Borman We also had the Vol kswagon tank which helped out. So we knew e:r:a.ctl y where we were then. Lovell But we should, in future flights, make sure that the spa.oe cra.ft has enough f'uel for adequate BEF alignment, and for at least a coup l e of revolutions with enough reserve to m.a.ke
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