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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…

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## CONFIDENTIAL

66:21:47	CC	Very good.
66:22:05	CC	How was your suit condition, Gemini VII, for the Pilot - Command Pilot?
66:22:11	C	I've got the suit off. All I'm using is the ventilation garment. I've got it completely unzipped and I'm halfway out of it, but it's fairly comfortable that way.
66:22:20	C	Roger. Copy.
66:22:58	C	We've turned off MSC's 2 and 3 at 66, and I guess we don't have anything else now but eat and an S-8/D-13, Carnarvon.
66:23:06	CC	Roger.
66:23:09	C	One thing we tried last night was to put the EEG leads back on my head and this was impossible to do; so we no longer have the leads on. I cut the harness. All four of them came off and we don't have the proper size "stickem" to put them back on my head.
66:23:27	CC	Roger. Copy.
66:23:30	C	We've got - -
66:24:22	CC	Gemini VII, Carnarvon.
66:24:24	C	Go ahead.
66:24:26	CC	They have a complete flight plan update for you, which will be given to you over the States.
66:24:34	C	Very well.
66:24:54	C	Carnarvon, Gemini VII, Purge complete. Crossover switch off.
66:25:00	CC	Roger, VII. Could you place the Panel Quantity switch to the ECS O₂ position, please?
66:25:05	C	There she is.
66:25:14	C	I didn't have to use those heaters all night.

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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.