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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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56 ann doing the blood pressure work. And that compl icates the recovery phase of it quite a bit . Bonnan Yes . Lovel l I think it also compromised the blood pressures that way too. Borman We didn't feel like running foot races when we finally hit the water. We had planned to get out of our pressure suits into that orbital flight suit, but the effort was just too great . So,we jus t opened t he repress valve to get some more cooling in there and sat . Love l 1 That ' s right . We opened up t he repress valve; di d we have the cabin fan on? Borman No, we didn ' t have t he cabin f an on . He had the snorkle val ve with the suit fans and t he o2 HI HATE and the re press valve open. Borman The checklists were all right then as far as you 're con- cerned? Lovell Yes. I thought the recovery phase was very good. I t hink I missed one or two. I know I didn ' t turn all the s tack switches off, but the power and control switches were off during the reentry phase; so, there was no problem there . 7 , 3 Communications Boman UHF. We had communicat ions with Air Boss whi l e we were still on the chute, and we had very good communications
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