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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
78 position, with the screen on, a long the lower right hand footwell e.rea. This provided adequate ventilation du.ring most of the time. When we exercised we found out we built up quite a bit of extra heat. I would then move the inlet hose to a position along side of me, along my left leg, and tie it down along the side pedestal with the opening facing upward. This would provide more cooling into the basic cockpit area and woul d actually keep me a lot cooler then I had been before. We found out that without suits on, the cockpit actually became bigger. There was more oppor tunity to move a.round. You could move the body, there was lees hesitancy to exercise, less resistance to exercise, you could get to things easier. You actually had more con trol and more comfort without the suit on. We stowed the suit on the seat, putting the visor a.long the outer part of the top of the seat rest a.nd doubling the legs back against the back of the seat. We stowed the harness in the juncture of the back and the seat of the ejection seat. During zero g we were floating up and we never touched the back pa.rt of the seat. Borman I have some flight notes tha.t I will just read out for the record. Ventilation without suits, The bypass hoses on the Gemini provide excellent return ducts for the suit compres-
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