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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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I I I 200 I I I I I I adequately t r ained on every experiment . If I could comme.nt o.n the one experi ment that I thought was handled i n a sort of , I won't say haphazard, but a t l east a r ather free style, was the l aser . We didn ' t get rea l pr oper tra i ning on that, I didn't get t o look at the l a ser unti l l ater in the game , The ground equipment a t Ascensi on never did come up , and I think that if we a r e really going t o make thi s l aser work, we are going t o have t o put more emphasi s on the people who are runni ng i t, It seems t o me that here we need s ome special procedure for training experiments. I t seems t o me that we went to some pl aces where Mike was stuck wi th the pos i tion of trying t o scrounge people and equipment or the individual exper iment ers were stuck wi th it . It seems l i ke ma.ybe Lilly should have been abl e t o work wi th some section in our or ganization to get t he t r a i ni ng tha t we wanted and get i t set up . The way it i s now, for trai ning on experiments, you a lmost ha ve t o depend o.n i ndi vi dual exper i menters and a lot of t he t ime they don't unders tand a t all the pr oblems of opera ting a s pacecraft. Did you have that fee l ing ever , Mike? FCSD Rep Just wi th the MSC-4, We did have a pr oblem getti ng
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