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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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Lovell Bonnan Lovell Bom"'n J,ove) 1 Borman Lovell "'Borman T,ovell That ' s a minus 1 error here, r ight? And a pJus 2 error there, right? Right. Okay , so I went in here and got to a plus 2 error here, right ? fl ight . Wp..nt up here to a minus , here ' s the zero mark right her e, to a minus one error ; where this thing crossed this thing right np to here , plus 2, and by eosh, it came right out to 50 degrees or s3 degrees . They gave ue 55 degrees roll l eft, which is what the nomi nal l evel was . .. I ' ve got i t right here . Fi fty degrees and 60 deGrees is what they gave us . Bank l eft 50 degrees and bank right 60 deerees. Yes . ~n~ so I looked up the ch~rt and it said 50 QeP,rees as t~e b~ck uu angl es--everything was working just l ike a charm anrt then I went back here to the ban k contonr line to get out our down range defl ection , and it was 1 or 2 miles , I · think it was , no , 5 mil es overshoot ; which w~s just ahout as cl ose as you can hack it . And I t hought oh boy, this t■ realJy , talk about nominRl reentry , this is the one
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