Documents / Official release
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.
24 Lovell As a .matter of fact, why don't we get out the flight plan. I think we might have a lot of comments on it. Borman Let's start from the beginning. Lovell The recorder was on at 27 .minutes. D-4/D-7 measure.ments. The GET of .measurement that the COLD IR was outside the two degree field of view of the booster was at 30 ,13. Borman At 40s58 we had 84 %fuel left. We were right on the flight pla.n there. Lovell There was another GET of measure.ment where the spacecraft was lined outside the field of view or the booster at 38:00. Borman We saw the booster for 2 or 3 revolutions after tl:at. The lights were still working. We called it out and t~ ground got readings on this. Lovell The moon and booster were in view at 43:00. The booster and .moon were in view and we might get an erroneous read:tn.g because we were almost on the .moon. Borman Here we have a note that at 2z32 the fuel cell Delta P l i ght blinked off at 2 ftours and 30 minutes and then came back on. That is t he section 2 dalta Plight . Lovell Okay , then as far as stowage goes, the · M-1 cuff was t urned on at 3z03, :Borman We put the bypass hoses on at this time also-- the ECS bypass hoses, Incidentally, they turned out to be not too .m.uch of a problem, They were very handy for the type or
Not linked to a story yet.
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 222 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.