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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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70:12:14	CC	Your cuff is full-scale.
70:12:58	CC	We have a valid blood pressure. Let's --
70:13:06	P	Starting exercise.
70:13:07	CC	Roger.
70:13:25	CC	Gemini VII, this is Surgeon. Jim, what probe did he have in? Is it the one with the lightweight headset?
70:13:32	P	Roger. He has the one with the lightweight headset.
70:13:40	P	Blood pressure coming through.
70:13:48	CC	Cuff full-scale.
70:14:46	CC	We have a valid blood pressure, Gemini VII. You can also remove the temperature probe, Frank.
70:14:54	C	Roger.
70:14:58	CC	Gemini VII, this is Surgeon. Frank, we have no more to add, I think, to your food, water and sleep report. We have all of that data from Jim on the last pass. I would like to ask a few questions here. One, what about the exercise before meals? Have you been doing those as programmed now?
70:15:22	C	Chuck, we missed those yesterday due to the work load. We didn't get them in, but we're going to do them religiously today.
70:15:32	CC	Very good. Are you feeling stiff at all, Jim?
70:15:38	P	Not too stiff. Just about around the waist is a little stiffness. We have to keep arching our backs a little bit due to our sitting position.
70:15:50	CC	Gemini VII. Right now you sound as if your voice is getting a little bit gravelly, and we heard this on a couple of occasions yesterday. Have you had any hoarseness or dryness in the cabin at all? Any symptoms at all?

## 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.