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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
it was very com.fortable. Borman That is right but the last couple of dqs we turned dollll the suit flow at night and it helped out. Lovell To compensate for this thing we turned down the suit flow. Borman There's a lot of inertia in the cooling system and it takes & long time from the time you make a move on the oontrols before you can feel it. Lovell Just to regress here one minute. When I was out of the suit and Frank was in it, we put my suit flow to .i'ull decrease &nd his to full increase to give him ma.rlmum cooling in the suit. I was not uncomfortable with the full decrease flow in the cockpit. Borman The humidity in the ca.bin was higher with the suits off. It W&s a much more comfortable cabin. Your skin di dn't get dry, and the nose problems we ha.d the first 3 or 4 cla3"s went awa::,. I am not sure that we ca.n contribute this solely to beina' out of the suits or whether it was the fact we were becoming more acclimated to the 100 per cent o:r:ygen. Lovell We have some accurate figures. I believe thou&h, that with suits on the humidity-temperature ra.nge w&s &bout 20 degrees difference. With the suite off they went a.round 10 degrees, I suapect. :Bo:rman We have them &11 there. The onl y time the CO jumped at &11 2
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