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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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58 Lovell Boman J.ovel l Boman LoveJl Boman Lovell Borman cross range . Did you have any kind of a mal function in the acceler ometer? No, but Spacecraft 6 did . I don 't remember that being a condition of the bet. I didn ' t either. Ground Information . The ground gave us excellent inforl!la tion, as f ar as everything we needed to know, inc l uding recomputing the guidance angles after retro . The ground did an excellent job. Tracking data, I don ' t remember receiving that . When Spacecra ft 6 was ent ering, they kept telling them that they were fine, a.nrl they wer e goi.ng right down the s l ot anti everything. J do not remember ever hP.aring from the ground on anything Jike that on ours, do you? Perhaps we did and we were s o engrossed in flyi ng it, t hRt we did not notice it. Well , we had good communications pri or to b l ackout over GuayrnRs . After we started guiding, going into th e atmos phere, communications went t o pot. Status of recovery. I <lo not think recovery cou1d have been any better . Very smooth . 7. 4 Systems Configuration The ECS, as we said before, we had o2 HI RATF. with both
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