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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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205 • Lovell Borman We were thoroughly briefed on the ejection seat by NASA people. I thought we were well prepared for that. 14.10 Parachute Training I think that all the parachute training that is required is launch off the island for a water landing. I think that is all the Parachute training you need, because that is .most likely where you are going to la.nd. You are going to land on la.nd during an abort, so there would be all kinds of people to help you or you are not going to make it e:nyway. Guess you would be too close to the booster. I think the water landing training is very important, especially when you are using new equipment like our new sui ts . If we had the 4C suits again for this flight, I think that, since we had rotated so early from Gemini 4, that we could have eliminated that and not have any real probletll!I . I think that all t he t raining should be conducted with training suits on. It does not :make much sense to go out there in a swimming euit o And we .might mention that we had one suit out there for
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