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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

top priority here. We don't want to foul you up on that.

49:21:22	P	Okay. Go ahead and pass the flight plan up. It looks like it's going to be too cloudy to try and take pictures of Mexico anyway.
49:21:30	CC	Okay. Get your attitude on S-8 and whenever you need me to stop talking just say so and we'll break into the flight plan update, and then we'll catch it after you finish.
49:21:39	C	Roger. I think you can go ahead and start now.
49:21:42	CC	Roger. You ready to copy?
49:21:45	C	Roger.
49:21:46	CC	Node: 49 plus 02 plus 56; Rev 31; 169.1 degrees east; right ascension, 12:50:31. D-4/D-7: 50:56:00; 418, and that was Sequence 418; Mode 02; pitch 90 degrees down, yaw zero degrees. Do you copy?
49:22:33	C	I copied.
49:22:35	CC	D-4/D-7: 50:56:00; Sequence 421; Mode 02; pitch 90 degrees down, yaw zero. D-4/D-7: 50:56:00; Sequence Number 422; Mode 02; pitch 90 degrees down, yaw zero. Do you copy?
49:23:23	C	I copied.
49:23:25	P	We better stop now, Houston, and get ready for S-8/D-13.
49:23:29	CC	Okay. Give me a call when you're able to copy some more.

49:24:34 CC Gemini VII, Houston.

49:24:36 C This is VII. Go.

## CONFIDENTIAL

Cases discussed

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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.