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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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53 swimmers there in a.bout 4 minutes, and so I put the HF antenna back down to keep it from getting da.maged. And we conducted the electrical check. I musts~ that I'm gl ad that the electrical check was simple, because it was hot in there, and we were tired. I was worried about this before and I would never have been able to sit there Blld go t hrough this complicated, long check. Lovell We had both pl8l'llled, that what we were going to do was take off our suits in the spacecraft, and wear our orbital flight suits. And I think that we probably would never have gotten out of the suits, because we were just too hot and too beat . :Borman It was even hot in the spacecraft, so Jim came through with the idea of opening the :repress valve, and this wa.s great. We bad a.11 that oxygen and you weren't going to use it. It blew all that cool oxygen out and we had o2 HI RATE and the snorkel on. So we stqed pretty cool when you get right down to it. So it was a. good idea. I don't know if you got the blood pressure measurements or not, did you? 6.17 Blood pressure measurement Lovell I took them, I don't know whether they came out or not. I put the reprogre.mmer on in the water and started ta.king blood
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