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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…
## CONFIDENTIAL

00:18:57	P	And they want the Adapter Beacon to REENTRY to COMMAND right at 37?
00:19:02	C	I don't know. I didn't hear that. Did they say that?
00:19:07	P	After ... let's erect this experiment. What do you say? It's dark now; I don't want to use any more fuel.
00:19:14	P	Okay. I'll do it. Okay. We're going to get a long read now. RCS experiment - experiment. Group 4 ON ... safe. Stand by.
00:19:31	C	Still got a Delta-P light?
00:19:36	P	Yes. ... Gage 1, ... experiment, RAD-1, pull IR on, IR on, power on, transformer on. Verify recorder is off.
00:20:04	CC	Gemini VII, Canary. May I have a fuel cell O2 reading from you, please?
00:20:07	C	Roger. Fuel cell O2 is 90 percent. Pressure is now 150 with the heater on.
00:20:15	CC	Roger. Copy.
00:20:19	P	Okay. Put them in a STANDBY. Sunset, dark light ... come on.
00:20:24	P	Dark light is on, Frank.
00:20:25	C	Okay. I can't see that darn thing, can you?
00:20:26	P	No.
00:20:27	P	There it is - no.
00:20:36	C	I have the light, but I can't see the booster.
00:20:37	P	No.
00:20:38	C	Okay. We're 20 minutes.
00:20:39	P	Okay. Dark light is off.

## CONFIDENTIAL

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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.