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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. 51 …This is Borman dumping urination. Right now. 04:56:06 C It's not dumping. 04…
  • p. 65 …P ... Ha! 13:59:09 P Okay. Borman urination at 13 ... SC O₂ on at 16…
  • p. 72 …That last dump was the courtesy of Borman. In a minute, we will have Lovell. Stand…
  • p. 93 …I copy Borman at 06 plus 53 was a minus 4, Borman at a minus 10…
  • p. 94 …That's Borman. I couldn't see them this time.
  • p. 95 …13.3 Borman. Is that correct? 27:05:18 P Roger. Frank caught that out about…
  • p. 104 …30:57:18 C This is Borman urinating. Document urination. 30:57:20 P My! 30…
  • p. 127 …It says: "Astronauts Borman and Lovell report all is well aboard their Gemini VII." You know…
  • p. 149 …48:07:29 C This is Borman about to make a urine dump. Turn on the…
  • p. 169 …53:38:56 C On the S-8/D-13, Lovell missed 8 and Borman missed…
  • p. 187 …68:31:02 C This is Borman dumping urine also. 68:33:10 P Urine, dump…
  • p. 234 …13 before, but here they are again. Borman missed 7, Lovell missed 11 this morning. 77…
  • p. 240 …89:09:34 C Borman's dumping urine. Urine's approximately 1 minute. P Standing by…
  • p. 254 …92:38:18 CC The Gemini - Gemini VII story today says: "Borman Hitches GT-VII to…
  • p. 274 …94:43:04 C Borman about to dump urine. 94:46. 94:52:53 C Okay…
  • p. 302 …58 C S-8/D-13 score: Borman was -8, Lovell -7. 100:49:04 CC…
  • p. 307 …Colonel Frank Borman on the pulled muscle of his leg. 101:49:24 C ... my left…
  • p. 311 …102:19:52 P Borman dumps here. 102:19:59 P Borman dumping here. You have…
  • p. 320 …They want to discuss Lovell getting back into the suit and Borman getting out. Did you…
  • p. 332 …115:58:59 C Okay, it's also Borman's. 115:59:01 CC Roger. Concerning…

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## CONFIDENTIAL

digital, 51 plus 33 plus 00; sextant, 34.82. .. Stop watch, 11.1; digital, 51 plus 38 plus 00; sextant, 30 plus 925. .. Stop watch, 17.3; ditital, 151 plus 45 plus 00; sextant, 51.155. .. I've an idea that is the ... vacuum cube. Since it already has speed ... small debris here. Right now it's approaching our sleep period and one thing we're doing is to tell you that one of the silver bags to put over both windows to ...

## ROSE KNOT VICTOR

52:51:52 CC Gemini VII, RKV CAP COM. We have nothing for you. We're standing by. All systems are GO.

52:51:59 C VII. Roger.

## COASTAL SENTRY QUEBEC

53:37:24 CC Gemini VII, CSQ CAP COM.

53:37:31 C This is VII. How clear are we?

53:37:34 CC Roger. Loud and clear. We have a UHF Number 6 test this pass.

53:37:40 C Roger.

53:37:44 CC Also,we want to pass on to you that the Luna 8 did not make a soft landing.

53:37:52 C Roger. Understand.

53:37:56 CC We're standing by for your flight plan report.

53:38:09 C Gemini. For the Hasselblad film we've used 43 frames ... from Magazine A ...

53:38:24 C ... We're on the third one now.

53:38:31 C We've used two magazines of the 16mm movie.

53:38:44 C On the D-9 experiment, we did not use the green

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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.