Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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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14.1
14.0 TRAINING
Gemini Mission Simulator
Lovell Since there were three crews that had been through
these simul ators quite extensively, and only one that
required any more knowledge or any more oper ation of
it , we decided to use the simulator at Houston as a
systems trainer. Most of our basic t raining in the
early phases of Gemi ni 7 was done on systems. We
used the Houston trainer to gain knowledge of the systems ..
Towards the end we also used it for launch and reeentry
training.
Borman We made no effort to keep it up to stowage configuration.
Lovell We made no effort to keep the Gemini Miss ion
.Simulator at Hous ton in any kind of a GT-7 stowage
configuration. We just merely used the flying
portions of it to get acquai nted with systems
and procedures. It was a procedures and systems
t rainer .