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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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54 pressure measurements a.nd--but that ' s harrl to do. I ought to comment on that. Because to take a blood pressure measurement you had to pump up the thing and leave your handsstill, and leave your arms still until it bleerts down ; well it takes a little while for it to bleed down. Meanwhile , Frank ' s got the checklist out and the guys out there are putting on the collar, and we're trying t o throw switches and take this and t hat; I ,just. thought I might as well start doing it with my other ~a.r.n. Ilorman Same way with the blood pressure they requested over Guayrnas during reentry, I make a comp1ete testimonial here ; I think once the reentry starts that everything e lse cets l eft aside, and you <lon ' t nP-ss around with blood pressures, or experiments or anything else. From then on it ' s sort of a case of surviving the darri thing . I didn't wan t rim messing a.round looking for a bl ood pressure ; so we diiln 1 t do it. About thA.t time we cou ldn ' t find the horizon any way. Lovell We got called up from the MCC Borman But , anyway, we didn ' t do it. So it didn ' t bother us . Lovel] That ' s the first I 'd heard of it when they cal l up. 7.0 .LANDING AN]) RECOVERY 7.1 Impact Borman We were drifting backwards, blunt end forwar d , rather, as
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