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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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35 Borman Yes, and you really fee l SEP ADAP'l'. It felt like I had put in f orward thrust at t hat time. Lovell Yes . Borman It was really a good thud when we separated the adapter. Retrorocket squibs were armed a t TR-30 . Arm AUTO-RS1I1RO was actually done at about TR- 10 . Lovell We did that a littl e bit early. Borman The event timer was perfect. MDU, Jim got all the readouts and they were exactly what ha d been called up. Lovell Yes . There was one or two that the last digit was one nu..n ber off, but that is nominal. We didn't bother that. 5.6 TR-0 Borman From the time we got the countdown at Carnarvon we really didn 1 t talk to a..~ybody a t all until we heard Houston at TR- 10 seconds come in with a count through Canton. Lovell We didn' t think tha t they were going to come in, as a. matter of fac t . Borman No, we were wondering... Lovell That is a very poor place to retrofire. Canton had p oor communications co~pared with the rest of it. Borman But they ca.me through t hat time. LoYell Yes, they ca.me through. Borman We really didn1 t need them because we had every indication
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