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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.

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“Borman”20 pages

  • 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…
## CONFIDENTIAL

44:01:06 C Just a minute.

44:01:07 CC Roger.

44:01:31 C Ready for the block update.

44:01:32 CC Roger. Area 30-1: 46:04:12; 15 plus 28. Area 31-1: 47:39:40; 14 plus 38. Area 32-4: 50:27:35; 16 plus 40. Area 33-4: 52:03:30; 15 plus 20. Area 34-4: 53:29:02; 14 plus 37. Area 35-3: 54:55:18; 17 plus 03. Area 36-Delta: 55:46:25; 23 plus 24. The weather in all areas is good. These are for reentry. Do you copy?

44:03:06 C Gemini VII, Roger. Thank you.

44:03:09 CC Roger.

44:03:18 C Carnarvon, this is VII.

44:03:20 CC Go ahead, VII.

44:03:21 C We've had another D-4 photometer check, as requested by Houston. I noted that we alined on a star and used it to calibrate, using the A-9 switch at night to turn her off, but the reticle would not go out of the RED. There were four low gains; there were four high gains.

44:03:44 CC Roger. We copy that it would not go out of the RED.

44:04:04 CC Houston copied it as being opposite during the last time that you used it.

44:04:07 C Roger. The first time we attempted to do the experiment with the same settings it appeared that the reticle stayed GREEN.

44:04:18 CC Roger.

44:04:19 C Now the reticle does turn GREEN with the calibrate switch up, but not with it down.

44:04:27 CC Roger.

## CONFIDENTIAL

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