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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
33 fl i ght. Borman We were flying with bus ties and tu.el cells and no squib batteries. Lovell To conserve the squib batteries for the r etrofire period. Borman Right. Lovell Because of that configuration, and because of the f act that we lost two stacks, we had to modify our power up procedure. Borman Right . Incidentally because of the f a.ct that we bad two degraded thrusters, 3 and 4, we didn't use the~ mode at all for this alisnment. We aliened it all manually. The thrusters were degraded, but there was still enough in them to allow you to get i'ine maneuvers, fine control. I used less control by turning off the circuit breaker for thruster No . 12 and used 11, giving back t hrust and this would give you right yaw• .5.2 TR-26 events Borman At T- 26 the event timer was set, we didn't read anybody because of our orbit , and we weren't able to start our event timer counting down until T-20. Lovell T-20 Bor.ma.n Read ou.t fro.m Carna.rvon.
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