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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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195 it's all well documented and scheduled. Another thing that was very helpful to us was Mike :Brzezinski, the way he scheduled all the systems briefings and all the trai ning. We didn't fool around with any of i t. It was set up well, and went like clockwork. I think this was one of the real fine points of our training. Mike came down to the Cape a week early and the whole schedule was set up a week before we got here, and with very little change after that. He did an outstanding job, and as far as I am concerned, that's the only way to run it. Lovell 'lhat's right. There's no sense running .around doing it yourself when we have a nice, well run .organiza t ion that can do t\his work for us. :Borman As far as any figures or numbers on the time spent i n the different phases of training, they are all availabl e. I f anybody wants them we have the fina.l report, and we have a weekly report. :Borman It was very helpful to us to just have to deal with one person, rather than dealing with the Planetarium people, the people at MAC, the people at the Cape. The only thing we did at all was contact Mike. We
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