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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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79 sors. They were mounted with the inlet on the outside wa.11 near the individual crewma.ns outboard knee. The suit inlet hose wa.s then positioned to secure different !low patterns. ]ecause no provision had been made for special inlet hoses, only two positions were tried. The one most often used was the suit inlet hose located near the inboard shoulder point ing forwa.rd. This produced a flow pattern from righ.t to left down across the body. The body was never really in the flow but a very comfortable circulation pattern was set up. The other primary pattern consisted of leaving the suit out let hose in the same place, but putting the inlet hose nea.r the outboard lrnee, pointing 90• from the direction of the outlet hose. This pattern a l so produced a comfortable flow pattern. In truth, I believe the cabin is so small in volume compared to the amount of air introduced by the suit circuit that almost any- arra.ngement would provide enough &ir to provide efficient cooling. We also have some sketch es of how this went. Lovell We also believe, after spending several dteys without suits on that the theory that at zero g there would be no con• vec'Ji.on cooling••• :Borma.n I am sure that there isn't a:riy, due to oha.nge in the heating condition.
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