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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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187 There 's one area of procedures and systems training which can be improved, and that is t he use of more correct procedures between ground and simulat or. A lot of time s we got into the simulator to do a reentry or launch, and we didn't get the parameters which you normally get from Mlssion Control . There have been five manned l aunches , with t apes on all of them , where the communications bet ween the grouno. an:l th,~ spacecraft are well documented . We ought t o incorporate t hose in training. So you could copy down updates, you could get the 0 ,8, you could get systems failures and how the ground handles them , and things of this n~tu.re. I think we could simulate them a lot better now, especially in Houston. Borman I think Lynn Taegart was doi ng t hat. Lovell Lynn was attempting to follow that procedure, We requested th1t they get some tape s from MGC from G1-5 1 s l aunch , but by the time we left there, they hadn't yet arri ved. Launch was very realis tic , Borman I don't think that we flew a simula t or with our roll p~ogram in it and it really didn ' t make any difference. I guess what we are sayi ng about the
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