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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
84 was dlll."ing t ape dumps, it would go up a.nd then come b&ok down but we lrnew this before flight though. Comfort dq a.nd night, with and without suits .. .There is just no com parison.. I have the notes that I wrote down while we were still up there. There is no comparison between suit on and suit off operation. The suit off is 1,000 per cent better. I think I may have been conservative. It wa.s ma.ybe a lot better than tha.t. Comfort without the suits was by and large very good. We used the cabin fan only once in the entire mission during one of the checks with the suit off. This was when we had Jim's ■uit inlet hose blocked off &nd my inl et hose operating in my side &nd the two suit outlet hoses in my side of the spacecraft. As we already mentioned here, Jim noticed some stagnant areas in the ap&oecra.ft, and • we turned on the cabin fan to see if this aleviated the pro blem, and it did help. There was a definite circulation with the cabin fan on. The only problem is the cabin £an draws a considerable electrical load, and we did not have the power to run it continually. The cabin pressure r egu lator worked perfectly, it never worked at all . Lovell That is right, never heard it, thank goodness. :Borman That's the pressure relief valve. Right, never hea.rd it. It never actuated. The cabin pressure regulator was ae
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