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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.
“Lovell”20 pages
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## CONFIDENTIAL 48:03:18 P We made one S-5 pass over southern Mexico earlier this morning. We were going to do another one but didn't have time prior to this last pass. 48:03:25 CC Roger. 48:07:29 C This is Borman about to make a urine dump. Turn on the tape for telemetry pickup. 48:16:41 CC Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. 48:26:38 P Lovell dumping urine this time. Not too much of it; most of it's in my underwear. ## TANANARIVE 48:27:04 CC Gemini VII, Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. 48:27:08 C Go ahead, Houston. Gemini VII. 48:27:11 CC Roger. Have an update on the S-8/D-13 time. Can you copy? 48:27:37 C Roger. Go ahead with the time, please. 48:27:40 CC S-8/D-13 time should be revised to 49:25:53; closest approach, 49:26:48. Do you copy? 48:28:00 C Roger. We have that. 48:28:02 CC Roger. And Benjamin Franklin says the pleasure was all theirs. It's always a pleasure to help another Navy man out. 48:28:14 P Tell them thanks. They did a wonderful job! 48:28:17 CC Roger. 48:28:40 CC They said you reported staging even quicker than they did. 48:28:47 P Good cooperation! 48:29:08 CC Gemini VII, your music is off. We're changing 48:29:08 CC Gemini VII, your music is off. We're changing reels. ## CONFIDENTIAL
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.