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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
194 years ago. After you get assigned to a specific mission, you better start learning the stars you need to use for certain burns and things of this nature. That's a good place to do it. I thought pe~haps, since we had the visual display, tba.t we could eliminate the Planetarium because the visual display had more real feel for it, and it does . However, the visual displays in the simulators don't carry the .magnitude of the stars that you can actually see. Borman And they are not flexible enough. Lovell Tba.t 1s right. They are not flexible . Borman You can't change them. Lovell So the Planetarium. was helpful . Borman Spacecraft orientation. As Jim said, we studied the burns and .ma.de the first two burns on the stars. The Planetarium was very helpful for this. Remember, you were all set to find Corvus and then Spica and we had it all lined up before we ever launched. 14.6 Systems Briefings Borman We had. one hundred and twenty - six hours and thirty .minutes of systems briefing'S and
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