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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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52 e:x:actly the same. You get a. good whack and then you sit there and vibra.te ba.ck a.nd forth for a little bit. 6.14 2X Checklist Borman 2,000 foot checklist we accomplished with no problem. About this time, at 2,000 feet, I heard Air Boss calling and we started communicating with Air Boss. I saw him flying around while we were still on the chute. Houston came throU8h a.bout this time and wanted to lmow if we had a. main chute. I'd ca.lled a.11 these things off, but I guess th.at the com xmmica.tions-maybe the Auto Cats weren't working or some thing. Lovell Air Boss should have called back a.nd said••• Borman But I called back and confirmed main chute. 6.15 Landing Borman We hit the water with a. pretty good thud, and your window went under water, didn't it? Jim's window went under watero We hit in a drift. We were drifting to the right rear, and there was a 14 knot wind, and when we hit the sp&eecra.ft rolled to the right, and your window went under the W&ter, and mine eticy-ed up. Nothing serious tho'U8h,. Lo-vell Nothi.ng serious. 6.16 Postlanding Checklist Borman We extended the .RF antenna. to get e. test for them &nd went on HF-DF; I hope that somebody heard it. But they had
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