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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

67:06:59	CC	Just because you are eating Day 5, don't think you only have nine days to go.
67:07:02	P	It keeps us happy that way.
67:07:07	CC	Are you so busy eating you can't talk to me for a few minutes?
67:07:12	P	Roger. Frank is doing the S-8/D-13. I'm available.
67:07:16	CC	Okay. Is it handy for you to give us a water report at this time? We are trying to calculate your weight distributions pretty accurately.
67:07:27	P	Roger. Stand by.
67:07:42	P	The Command Pilot, as of this morning, 271 ounces.
67:07:48	CC	Roger.
67:07:50	P	Day 5, Meal A was eaten this morning. He did not eat the sausage patties.
67:07:56	CC	I don't need that part, Jim. Just the water.
67:08:03	P	Pilot was 216 ounces. 216 ounces.
67:08:09	CC	Roger.
67:08:11	CC	Also, I would like to ask you about the 16mm camera film magazine stowage. Specifically, did you stow them in individual bags or several in one bag, and specifically when you stowed them as best you can remember; that is, how soon after launch?
67:08:33	P	We stowed them in two bags, splitting them up evenly. I'm sorry, three bags. We put them in three different bags and we did it about, I'd say, about 5 or 6 hours after launch.
67:08:48	CC	Roger. 5 to 6 hours after launch. We are still chasing that one around.
67:08:59	CC	Okay, Jim. I'd like to brief you on a possible - on a definite maneuver plan that we are working on. Did they brief you on this at all last night?

## CONFIDENTIAL

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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.