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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
183 the OAMS squib just to see if you can hear it." At this stage of the game we were depending upon the OAMS fuel for realignL"lg the platform. I thought that by then we were in a stage of the mission that we were operation&l rather than interested in blowing something to see if we cou.1.d hear it. Lovell Especially for a night a lignment . Borman Right . And I agree with you a thousand times it would not make any difference, but on the thousand and first time, it might have made a difference if we lost our OAMS, and I could not see any reason to do it J so we did not do it. Another item, that I did not like , came up as far as flight plan changes go . The request that was put in as part of the flight plan, and never was in the flight plan. That was to get a blood pressure over Guaymas after retrofire. As it turns out, we tried to do this , but we could not find the horizon and so we did not do it. I woul d strongly, as a matter of fact, I would not even consider it. After retro fire, as far as I am concerned , the blood pressures, and all the other non-opera tional equipment can go by the way side . Lovell Right . Borman Right then the important thing is to get on the ground. Lovell Yeah , actually the retrofire time , the triple orbits before
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