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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.
14.0 TRAINI NG 14.1 Gemini Missi on Simulator ...........•••••••185 14. 2 DCPS (Launch abort simulat or) ....•.•••••••191 14. 3 MAC Engineering Simulator ........••.••.•••191 14.4 Translation and Docking Tr ainer ...•.••••••192 14 . 5 Planet ari um. . ........................••••• •193 14. 6 Systems Brief inga ...............•.••••••••194 14 . 7 Flight Experiments .............••.••••••••198 14.8 Spacecra f t syst ems tests .......••.••••••••202 14.9 Egress t r aining....................••.•••• 204 14.10 Parachute Tr a ining..•.........•...•.•••••• 205 14.11 Launch simulationa .................•••••••206 14.12 Reentry simulations ..........•........•••.206 14.13 Simul ated net work simulations ...•..••••••• 206 14.14 Ne t work s imula tions .............•..••••••• 206 14.15 Fl ight Plan t r a i ning...............••.••.• 207 15.0 CONCLUDING COMMENTS ...•....••........•...........208
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Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 222 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.