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Gemini VII Air-to-Ground Transcript Volume I: 5011500_VolumeI

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This is Volume I of III of the Gemini VII voice communications transcript, covering pages 1 to 337 and marked Confidential. It records air-to-ground, ground-to-air and on-board exchanges beginning at lift-off. Early passages cover staging, orbit insertion and stationkeeping with the booster, which the crew reports is venting heavily, and they photograph it. Later passages near 116 hours hold the crew's detailed descriptions of airglow, stars and a sunrise seen from orbit.

  • p. 51 …This is Borman dumping urination. Right now. 04:56:06 C It's not dumping. 04…
  • p. 65 …P ... Ha! 13:59:09 P Okay. Borman urination at 13 ... SC O₂ on at 16…
  • p. 72 …That last dump was the courtesy of Borman. In a minute, we will have Lovell. Stand…
  • p. 93 …I copy Borman at 06 plus 53 was a minus 4, Borman at a minus 10…
  • p. 94 …That's Borman. I couldn't see them this time.
  • p. 95 …13.3 Borman. Is that correct? 27:05:18 P Roger. Frank caught that out about…
  • p. 104 …30:57:18 C This is Borman urinating. Document urination. 30:57:20 P My! 30…
  • p. 127 …It says: "Astronauts Borman and Lovell report all is well aboard their Gemini VII." You know…
  • p. 149 …48:07:29 C This is Borman about to make a urine dump. Turn on the…
  • p. 169 …53:38:56 C On the S-8/D-13, Lovell missed 8 and Borman missed…
  • p. 187 …68:31:02 C This is Borman dumping urine also. 68:33:10 P Urine, dump…
  • p. 234 …13 before, but here they are again. Borman missed 7, Lovell missed 11 this morning. 77…
  • p. 240 …89:09:34 C Borman's dumping urine. Urine's approximately 1 minute. P Standing by…
  • p. 254 …92:38:18 CC The Gemini - Gemini VII story today says: "Borman Hitches GT-VII to…
  • p. 274 …94:43:04 C Borman about to dump urine. 94:46. 94:52:53 C Okay…
  • p. 302 …58 C S-8/D-13 score: Borman was -8, Lovell -7. 100:49:04 CC…
  • p. 307 …Colonel Frank Borman on the pulled muscle of his leg. 101:49:24 C ... my left…
  • p. 311 …102:19:52 P Borman dumps here. 102:19:59 P Borman dumping here. You have…
  • p. 320 …They want to discuss Lovell getting back into the suit and Borman getting out. Did you…
  • p. 332 …115:58:59 C Okay, it's also Borman's. 115:59:01 CC Roger. Concerning…

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## CONFIDENTIAL

43:09:56 CC Gemini VII, Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. How do you read?

43:10:16 CC Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. How do you read?

43:10:21 C Clear, Houston.

43:10:23 CC Roger, VII. Could you cycle through your Quantity Read switch? Go to the first position and I'll tell you when to switch to the next one.

43:10:32 C Roger. We're on ECS $ \mathrm{O}_{2}. $

43:10:35 CC Roger, and good morning.

43:10:38 C Good morning to you.

43:10:41 CC I have a fairly lengthy flight plan update for you here. Are you ready to copy?

43:10:49 C Stand by a second.

43:10:51 CC We'll wait one.

43:11:05 C Hi, Houston! Go ahead. I'll copy.

43:11:08 CC Roger. Time: 44:43:00; crew status reports on the Command pilot at the Cape. D-5: this will be a check on the D-5 instrument; Time, 45:24:00. Let me first give you a little briefing here, Frank. It appears that the photo tube was saturated during the previous D-5 runs, the ones where you've had trouble. Want to advise you not to turn the photometer on until you're in total darkness when in the night mode. If you have to turn it on, you may saturate it for 15 to 20 minutes and it would not work properly for that period of time. Now some instructions here: delete the first star in the D-5, Sequences 01 and 02. Are you with me so far?

43:12:36 C I'm with you, but I don't agree. We didn't have that on when there was any light around but we'll go ahead and try it.

43:12:44 CC Roger. Would you switch Quantity Read to FUEL CELL $ O_{2} $?

## CONFIDENTIAL

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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 341 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.