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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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75 Lovell Borman Lovell Borman Lovell turned on the RCS Heaters on the second dtcy and left them on through the entire £light. They sequenced and went on and of£, I am sure, but we did not know about it. We never saw the light, and we did not have to worry about it . The temperatures kept right around 80° all the time. No comments on thruster f iring, worked fine. We shut the RCS system down initially around 35,000 feet, shut off the motor valves and then the oscillation on the drogue built up even greater than it was. So we turned them back on again, and I'm not sure if it is my imagination or not but it seemed like this had some effect on damping the oscilla tions. It may have been just the position in the reentry, though. I had the feeling that perhaps we had run out of RCS fuel prior to drogue depl oy. I am not certain, but if we di dn't then the RCS didn't have the authority, because we were oscillating before drogue deploy. I didn't notice any RCS fumes after impact. Did you, Jim? After impact? No. I think that our system of turning the Repress on and getting the..• 8.4 ECS Why don't you comment on suit mobility? This was a flight that actually did some suit. We had the new light weight suit. evaluation on the Mobility is better
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