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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
27 thos e t hree times a day wi th the excepti on of the last day and one other day when we got only two. I think this is a very good idea . I t is difficult and requir es discipline because the last thing in your mind i s the desire to exer cise. You get lazy very easily. We di d a very extens i ve operation with t he bungee and also i sometrics three times a day. Borman They were programmed 10 minutes. I think a more realistic one would be about five .minutes , three times a day. I did 60 pulls on t he bungee cord with both hands, 20 wi t h each leg, and then ended up with 10 with each ar.m on the bungee cord in addition to the few f or the crew status reports. Lovell I did 60 pulls on the arms and 60 on each leg and it didn't .make any differ ence. I could have done 20 on each leg and would have probably been better off. Borman At 45 hours J im started taking off his suit. During that first 45 hours our noses were clogged end stuffy, our eyes were i rritated, t he cabin was hot ; it was miserable. As s oon as Jim started taking off his suit, the cabin even though he was out of the suit and I was in, got better than it was with both of us in our suits. Lovell I didn't real i ze it was that long. We were almost up there two full days befor e I started taking the suit off.
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