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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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26 or 150 pai at launch. I called up Houston and said I would like to leave the gauge in the FC02 position rather than the ECS o2 positlon. Chris said, "No, unless we really felt strongly about it, they would rather have it in the ECS o position". So we left it there and after we 2 were inserted and we were still with the booster, they came in with a recommendation that we open the cross feed. When we did, this immediately raised the pressure to 250 psi. The thing that was bad was that we had over 100% o:xygen and we were down to about 100 lbs. on the FC02• We agreed that we would fly at least 50 lbs. above the do.me, So, I really didn't see the need for opening that valve although it didn't cause a:n:y problems. Lovell They wanted to pump up and make sure. Borman It worked fine and we got right back up to 250 lbs. Lovell That is one syste.m that did work fine. Borman The first 7 hours was pretty no.minal. All throughout the flight plan we have notes that the Delta Plight went out and came back on and so on. Bor:man At 16,40 we sighted a satellite .much lower and on a slightly higher inclination path than we were. It passed underneath us. It was so fe:r awa::, it looked like a sighting from the earth. It was just a refiection. We were very religious about the exercise periods. We s-ot
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