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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.
“Frank Borman”10 pages
25 work we did without suits on. Lovell Right. We took the s/c out of the horizon at 2:08 to get some measurements,as requested fro.m DOD,after we measured the stars. This is after we powered down the equipment. We connected the bypass hoses at 2:32. This was 2 hours plus 32 minutes. Lovell Crew status reports. We bad 3 or 4 a day. Borman 5:20,we started unpacking the meals. This is one thing that we had trouble with• lbth left and right food boxes were jam packed. Fortunately ,we changed the lanyards. v,e changed this during our stowage review , <hough it was difficult we got them out. Several of the meals had lost vacuum. Lovell Which .made them more difficult to get out. Borman Really you can't co.mplain about this. The people did the best they could. We had an awful lot of food to store and we were able to get them out. Lovell We had several blinkinge of the Delta Plight during this period. It went out at 6 hours, a littleleas t han 6 hours, then came back on again at 6:27. Borman One thing that I wanted to find out a.bout,and I still don't understand,is why we turned on the crossfeed valve right after l&:w\oh. The FC o2 pressure was just on the minit11.Um
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