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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. 57 …The crew status report from the Lovell house remains at three. 06:19:40 C Thank…
  • p. 72 …In a minute, we will have Lovell. Stand by. 21:42:05 C Ready. 21:42…
  • p. 73 …That last urine dump was the courtesy of Lovell, at about 21:40. 21:44:48…
  • p. 93 …26:23:53 C Lovell at 06 plus 53 with minus 4; Borman was minus 10…
  • p. 127 …It says: "Astronauts Borman and Lovell report all is well aboard their Gemini VII." You know…
  • p. 139 …08:14 C Negative, because the CM2, Jim Lovell, is going to be doing them both.
  • p. 149 …48:26:38 P Lovell dumping urine this time. Not too much of it; most of…
  • p. 167 …The signal ceased at 4:51 pm Eastern Standard Time and Sir Bernard Lovell, Observatory Director…
  • p. 169 …53:38:56 C On the S-8/D-13, Lovell missed 8 and Borman missed…
  • p. 172 …getting in preparation for a urine dump. Lovell will be dumping first. ## COASTAL SENTRY QUEBEC 55…
  • p. 184 …The headline over the Gemini VII story today says, "Lovell orbits in underwear". ## CONFIDENTIAL
  • p. 187 …68:30:03 P This is Lovell dumping urine ... 68:30:23 P There she goes…
  • p. 226 …Boreman mis sed 7 and Lovell missed 11. 75:15:41 CC Roger. 75:15:43…
  • p. 234 …Borman missed 7, Lovell missed 11 this morning. 77:34:32 CC Repeat that last again…
  • p. 240 …s approximately 1 minute. P Standing by. Lovell's going to dump urine. P There's…
  • p. 302 …Borman was -8, Lovell -7. 100:49:04 CC Roger. 100:49:06 C Okay. We…
  • p. 307 …That's right. 101:49:31 P And I will authenticate same. Lovell dumping urine. ## CONFIDENTIAL
  • p. 311 …Borman minus 11, Lovell minus 6. 103:00:16 C Borman dumping here. CANARY 112:05…
  • p. 320 …They want to discuss Lovell getting back into the suit and Borman getting out. Did you…
  • p. 330 …Does he have first of all, is he thirsty? 115:54:18 P This is Lovell…

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# CONFIDENTIAL

44:49:46	C	Chuck, here's Frank. I lost the top left-hand lead off the EEG.
44:49:53	CC	Gemini VII, say again. Did you say you lost the one, the top left-hand lead off the EEG? Is that affirm, Frank?
44:50:00	C	Affirmative. It came off someplace.
44:50:05	CC	Okay. You just noticed that now?
44:50:08	C	It came off during the night while I was sleeping.
44:50:10	CC	During the night. Okay.
44:50:14	C	Also, the reason - the reason we're eating the food this way is that's the way it comes out on the lanyard and it's too much trouble, it's almost impossible to try to sort it out in order - I mean in sequence now.
44:50:24	CC	That's - that's perfectly all right, Frank. It doesn't matter, except to try and keep track of the meals here. If we can - if you can just report it by day and number each time, and now that we're up to date, if you keep doing that, we'll have no trouble. If you'll do that and report the things that you are not eating from each meal, if any, that'll keep us up to date.
44:50:47	C	And for Chris' information, Number 1 Delta-P light came on and then both of them went off.
44:50:57	CC	Say again. Say again, Frank.
44:51:00	C	The Number 1 Delta-P light blinked on about 15 minutes ago and then both of them went off and now our ... is off.
44:51:06	CC	Roger. You're aware that you can cut both of the left EEG leads now, if you want to, since you've lost that one.
44:51:16	C	I didn't know that. I thought they would want the others free also.
44:51:18	CC	The two on the right can continue but the two on the left now are inoperative.

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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.