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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.
“Frank Borman”10 pages
59 suit fans, snorkel valve open, and the vent valve open . We a]so opened the repress valve. Electrical: We per formed a simple electrical check. We turned off 3 and 4J l eft 1 anrl 2 on, and watched for the variation in voltage on the main buses. The bus that is fed by land 2 bat teries varied with wave action. Lovell That is right. But 3 and 4 dirl not move from zero. Borman And then you turned off squib batteries land 2 also didn't you? Lovell I left squib battery 3 on. Borman Squib battery 3 was the only one that was on. Lovell Control: We turned off the platform, the computer, the circuit hreakers to the thrusters, and the RCS thrusters. Borman He l eft the comput er in PRELAUNCH for 48 seconds or more, before we turned it off. Aeromedical, no comment. Except blood pressure being a nuisance, anrl perhaps even a hindrance when we were trying to go around the cockpit with the switches and you had to ho 1d one arm stil1. 7.5 Spacecraft Status Boman RCS fumes: When you open the snorkel at around 26,000 feet you get a good load of them. Lovell I am not sure what kind of fumes they were. They were not familiar to me. I have smelled the results of fuel in the
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