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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
65 SF.F worked perfectly. BEF worked perfectly. ORB RATE s eemed to be fine , We used it preparing for the rendezvous with Spacecraft 6. After running OP.BRATS fo r approximately an hour , and then going back to align S P.P , we did not notice a great amount of misalignment. ?he only time it was on F'RF:E was during reentry, I cuess the FREF. worked fine . Lovell No probl em about displays , were there ? Boman lfo , not at all , Lovell Been using- them for a couple of years now. 'Borman No prob l em about contro l s . ~'h~ PLATFORM mode worked well , During our last alienment, we had degraried opera....ion in thrusters~ and 4; so we aliened it manually f or 2 orbits . It was very easy to no , ann it worked fine . We had eJ l the confidP-nce in the worl ri as far A. S atti tude reference is concerned, 8 . 2 OAJIS 'Rorinan OAMS operational check, Pad: I tr.ink we went arnunn the horn about~ times before they were satisfieri. Lovel 1 It took three circuits to s et them , Borman Ri gr t , Inflight O~J~S : The on ly ooerati0nal er.eek we harl is when we lost the complete authority in yaw richt, thrusters 3 and 4, We noticed this first 1n PULSE mode; •
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