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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. 95 …13.3 Borman. Is that correct? 27:05:18 P Roger. Frank caught that out about…
  • p. 127 …45:07:38 CC I'd like also to tell you, Frank, that we're very…
  • p. 240 …89:09:34 C Borman's dumping urine. Urine's approximately 1 minute. P Standing by…
  • p. 307 …Colonel Frank Borman on the pulled muscle of his leg. 101:49:24 C ... my left…
  • p. 332 …115:58:59 C Okay, it's also Borman's. 115:59:01 CC Roger. Concerning…
# CONFIDENTIAL

47:15:33	C	... it's the only way to fly!
47:15:38	CC	Roger.

HAWAII

47:27:38	CC	Gemini VII, Cape.
47:27:47	CC	Gemini VII, Houston.
47:28:05	C	This is Gemini VII. Go ahead.
47:28:08	CC	Roger, VII. This is Houston. Are you GO for D-4?
47:28:12	C	Roger. GO.
47:28:14	CC	Fuel cell purge complete?
47:28:17	C	Say again?
47:28:19	CC	Is your fuel cell purge complete?
47:28:21	C	It's complete.
47:28:23	CC	Roger. How do you like the music? Are you still getting it?
47:28:28	C	We turned it off. We got a little busy there and we turned it off for awhile.
47:28:34	CC	Okay. They've got some good Hawaiian stuff coming up to you.
47:28:37	C	That's okay! We'll give it a try.
47:28:43	CC	Cloud cover at the Cape is .3 to .5 for D-4.
47:28:49	C	Say again, please.
47:28:52	CC	Cape cloud cover .3 to .5.
47:28:56	C	Where's that?
47:28:58	CC	That's at the Cape for D-4.

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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.