Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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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our traini ng . We switched in and out of a singl e sui t ,
wet , or not wet , and got it all completed by one o ' clock .
14.11 Launch s i mulations •
14.1 2 Reentry simulations
14. 13 Simul ated network simula t ions
14. 14 Network simul ations
Borman Launch s imul a t ions, Reentry simula tions , and Simulated
Network Si mul a tions, and Network Simulations, a t the Cape
down here , f or us, were a total waste of time . We have
a l ready mentioned this earlier, but because of the f act
that the simulator was not playing with the Mcc, r would
.not say the l aunch simul ations were a t otal waste of
time. We did get some l aunches, but I am afr a i d that the
time spent was not profitable .