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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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208 Fortunately, I think, that the people that you have to work with now, Bill Tindall, and Barney Evans, are pretty good. One of the first things I would recommend to anyone to do, is to start talking to the Mission Planning people as soon as they get assigned to a flight. From then on, • keep their fingers on the flight plan. I think that is reflected in the amount of time we spent on ours. 133 hours was spent i n that training just on preparing and reviewing the flight plan. I think it paid off because we ended up with one that was reasonable and one that we coul d work wi th. I would not call it training though , as it was sort of doing flight planning. 15.0 CONCLUDI NG COMMENTS Borman What else do you have to say James? Lovell We are back home, that proves the mission was a success. Borman There is one thing that I have to say I think the system we have set up here in FCSD now to handle these flights , this task force organizati on, is outstanding. I was very well pl eased with the support we got from everybody. Lovel l I do not think we could have done it ourselves and having gone through i t before when we did not have the
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