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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
44 you where you a.re and what the ba.nk angle looks like with the horizon. But, I don't think tha.t a person that i s fly ing the reentry ca.n. cross check between the ball a.nd the horizon. I think you have to ma.ke your choice and l ive with it. Okay, roll commands were just like the simula.torJ t ime correlation was good. The guidance initiate came right on the money, and the needles jumped indicating an undershoot, a slight undershoot. From then on we just flew it the way we 'd flown them a hundred times in St. Louie and in the sim ulator. I think we were ve-ry well prepared for t his . I tried to fly it so that we took i t down.range, and we got a slight overshoot indication on downrange of about 1 needle width, 1 dot. Then as we got down to a.round 2 g's or 2½- g's, I tri ed to start zeroing it out , so then when 3 g's oameJ the downra.nge was pegged right on the money. And we were indicating zero on the cross range. And at 3 g's I switched to flying the roll bug, and. just zeroing the roll bug; and a.s we came on down further and further the do'Nnrange stayed zero, but the cross range started going off full scale. Well, this really doesn' t mean anything because all the cross ra.nge is indicating is
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