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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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68 • fend up in two pulses o tibump, II "b tiump, th ta ldwou dten to yaw left and roll left. And the natural tendency of the spacecraft to yaw left due to water boiler venting, I guess, and perhaps ECS venting, was aggravated by this added impulse of two blips when we shut down the ACME. How about the selector controls and switches i n the cockpit? Lovell No comments t here. Borman I don't have any either. The attitude controller, I thought, was fine. No problems. Maneuver controllers were fine. Lovell The right hand maneuver controller was a very nice operating controller and it was very handy. Very easy to operate. Borman As far as inflight malfunctions or irregularities, we lost aut hority on thrusters 3 and 4. We got some of our yaw righ t capability back by turning off the circuit breaker for Thruster 12 and then thrusting backwards with the maneuver controller in order to give us yaw right. This wor~ed very well and enabled us to check yaw right drift rates and enabled us to make yaw right maneuvers. The only thing- you couldn't get very small control inputs with this mode. Lovell And you used a lot of gas. Borman And you used a lot of gas. I was very happy when we finally
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