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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.
11.0 EXPERIMENTS 11.1 Celestial, Space, and Terrestrial Radiometry (D-4/D-7)•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••140 11.2 Star Occulation Measurement (D-5) •...•.....•146 11.3 Simple Navigation (D-9) .....................148 11.4 Visual Acuity and Astronaut Visibility and Vision Test (M-9 ) .......................154 11.5 Synoptic terrain (S-5) and weather (s-6) photograph.y••••..••.••.•••....••••.•••••••••158 11.6 Proton Electron Spectrometer and Tri-Axis Flux-Gate Magnetometer (MSC-2 and MSC-3) ...•160 11.7 Optical communications (MSC-4 ) ..............161 11.8 Landmark Contrast ..•....•........•..........165 11.9 Cardiovascular reflex conditioning (M-1 ) ....166 11.10 In-flight exercises (M-3) ...................167 11.11 In-flight phonocardiogram (M-4) and In-flight sleep analysis (M-8) ..............167 11.12 Bioassay body fluids (M-5) and calcium balance study (M-7) .................168 11.13 Miscellaneous ......•.......................•172 12.0 PREMISSION PLANNING 12.l Mission Plan (trajectory) ...........•.......175 12.2 Flight Plan.••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••175 12.3 Spacecraft Changes •..•......................176 12.4 Mission Rules ............. .. ......•. .. ......177 12,5 Experiments••.•..•••••.•...•......•...•....•177 13.0 MISSION CONTROL 13.1 GO/NO GO' s ••••••••.••.••.•••••.•••....••...•179 13,2 PLA and CLA updat es•••••••••••••••••••••••••l79 13 . 3 Consuma.bles .............•.•...•..........••.180 13.4 Flight Plan changes.••••••••••••••••••••••••181 13. 5 Systems . ....................•.............. . 182 13.6 Experiments real-time updatea ...•......••.••184
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