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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

56:02:56	P	This is Gemini. Read you loud and clear.
56:02:58	CC	Roger. We're standing by for your purge. All your systems are GO.
56:03:02	P	Roger. All systems GO.
56:03:07	C	RKV. The cabin pressure ...
56:03:12	CC	Roger, we'd like for you to leave Fuel Cell O2, 750, Fuel Cell H2, 500. The minimums for Fuel Cell O2 are 170; the minimum for Fuel Cell H2, 330. Do you copy?
56:03:38	C	Stand by, please.
56:04:05	C	Understand the spread for RSS oxygen is 750 to 150 and I need the hydrogen spread.
56:04:12	CC	The hydrogen spread is 500; the minimum is 330.
56:04:19	C	Hydrogen 500 to 330. How about ECS O2?
56:04:24	CC	ESC O2, 580 to 230, 233.
56:04:38	CC	That's 580, 233.
56:04:42	C	Roger. Will you all please ask the network to wake us up if we get within range of these minimuns?
56:04:46	CC	Roger. Will do.
56:04:49	C	Thank you.
56:04:50	CC	Will you place your Quantity Read switch to ECS O2?
56:04:53	C	There you are.
56:05:14	CC	Your next fuel cell purge after sleep period will be over Carnarvon at an elapsed time of 66 plus 20.
56:05:23	C	Thank you.
56:05:49	CC	Would you place Quantity Read to FUEL CELL O2?
56:06:00	CC	I have a map update for you when you are ready to copy.

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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.