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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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“Lovell”20 pages

  • 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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47:12:13	C	No, not yet. Not since the last time.
47:12:15	CC	Roger. We did, in fact, get an indication of temperature.
47:12:16	C	Very good.
47:12:17	CC	Surgeon out.
47:12:19	C	Thank you.
47:12:22	C	Proceeding with fuel cell purge.
47:12:26	CC	Roger.
47:12:51	CC	Okay. While you're purging, we have the results of the transponder test. They were negative, but they feel that it was a ground problem and quite sure that your transponder is okay. Apparently it was an error in the pointing data.
47:13:08	C	No, it couldn't have been. I was tracked exactly on the ... it was very, very easy to spot and we were right on it.
47:13:16	CC	What they feel is that it was an error in the ground pointing data, what the ground had themselves.
47:13:21	C	Roger. I see. Thank you.
47:13:27	P	From up here it looks like they're pretty busy on Pad 19.
47:13:32	CC	Roger. Everything is going real good on it.
47:15:12	C	Carnarvon, Gemini VII.
47:15:14	CC	Roger, Gemini VII.
47:15:16	C	Roger. While Jim is purging here, he's been out of his suit for about a revolution now. He's very, very comfortable. I'm able to stay as comfortable as I was. Our suit temperatures dropped and so did our cabin temperature.
47:15:29	CC	Roger.

## 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.