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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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86 the suit we r&n. with it in a 45 degree position. When both people were m the suits, we ran it in the 45 degree posi tion. Lovell I'd like to make one comment· on the C&bin Inlet Valve, I think a. future procedure woul d be to either open the visor or unzip the hood prior to using the snorkel va.lve, so you do not get this concentrated ambient flow into the suit in a small concentrated area. Okay. Primary o2 System Monitoring. Borme.n Prima:ry o System Monitoring was no problem. The cryogen 2 ics bottle for ECS o2 orygen did vent •.. I think i t was a.bout the 8th d~ it started venting. Performance of the cryogenics bottles have been outstanding. The first one, ECS o2 , started venting tod~. And we were still adding heat to the other two bottl es. Let's see, this was Sunday morning so that woul d have been the 8th day that i t started ventmg. The quantity measuring system worked fine. The flow rates were adequ&te . I just ca;nnot emphasize enough the desirabil ity of going without suits. The pressure a.nd temperature remained just nominal. We had dome plots &boa.rd the spacecraft, and we checked them out. We had to use the auto heater on the ~S o2 bottle perhaps, the first two days or so and then we were able to turn the heater off complete-
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