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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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than the 4-C suit, but mobility in the Gemini cockpit with the 5-C suit still restricts the person such that it de grades his performance for long duration missions. It is still quite inunobile in the 5-C suit. We still have a lot of trouble with it. The suits checked out all right prior to the flight. We did not do any integrity checks with the light weight suits during the flight. The air flow through the suit was adequate where the flow got to the body. However, there were many pockets where the &ir became stagna.nt, especially in the crotch area.. It would heat up in local areas of the body and would not provide adequate cooling. Humidity goes right a.long with temperature. The areas where the air flow did not go across the body, was very humid. We also noticed that it gave you sort of a wet clammy feeling when the cool air went in there. It gave you sort of a. cold, clammy feeling where the flow went th.rough. Places where the air did not res.ch were hot and clammy. :Sorman Also, the humidity in the ca.bin was very, very low when we were in the suits. The ca.bin was dry and hot. Very, very poor. Lovell The humidity dew point was between 52 and 58 most of the time. We have some accurate figures on that. I don't recall any instance of even seeing the CO2 gauge move other than
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