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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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67 The regul a t ed pressure stayed at 300 , r ight on the money, throughout the ent ire flight until the auxiliary tank was actuated . We ot:>erated the auxiliary tank when the nressure dr opped about 30 psi . Love l l Yes . It went down to about 260 or 270 . IlonnAn Right . It crune right ba ck up , and the system worked just exactly as advertised. The prope1.1ant ouantity gauge worked fine. Por most of the flight it was right in ae-reement with the ground comt:>utations. Love] J 1:/hat wa.s the final pro"9elJ ant quantity reading? Borman About 2 percent to 3 percent . Lovell And we still had 300 psi r egulated pressure . Borman Source pressure remained about 1,000 psi . Monitoring of OAMS propellant remaining: On board in fomat ion I thought . was good. The OAMS propellant quantity gauge, wor ked fine . Lovell At least it was on the s i de favoring us . :Sorman Yes. The ground in.formation was excellent. At the end of every da,y they gave us ground r undown of how much O.AMS fue l we had remaining. It worked out fine. We were short on O.&MS fuel. Any time we di dn't have a s~ecific assi gnment, we were in drif t ing f l ight. That's one thing we want men tioned. Every time we powered down we' d turn off the ACME bias power and the ACME inverter, and invariably t h i s would
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