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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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188 Houston s imulator is that we don' t have to keep it right up to the final confi guration. · It's a basic trainer. Borman It helps a lot to get in there and get the work done, rather than not be able to get in it because it is being modi fied to bring it up to the latest configu ration. As long as the math f low is proper, and the basic parts are t here, you can almost leave it the same for every launch. Lovell It should be updated as far as basic syst ems. We had the fuel cell panel put in ours; we wouldn' t want batteries, because of a lot of syst ems training on fuel cells . That is important . We don't have to have every little item like on the Cape simulator for initial simulator t raini ng. Borman I was very pleased with the Cape s i mulat or. We've had very good work out of it, and it was right up to the l atest s towage configuration. I believe we were only shot down on the simulator once. It wasn' t working perfectly every time we got in it , but at least we got val uable training out of i t .
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