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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

## CARNARVON

72:40:10	CC	Gemini VII, Carnarvon CAP COM.
72:40:25	C	Carnarvon, this is Gemini VII. Go ahead.
72:40:28	CC	Roger. I've got three items on your flight plan to delete because of weather, whenever you're ready.
72:40:36	C	Stand by a minute.
72:40:37	CC	Roger.
72:40:41	CC	Okay. Go ahead, please.
72:40:43	CC	Okay. The first one is the Apollo Landmark at Time, 73:08:40; Sequence 234. Second item is the D-4/D-7: 73:08:40; Sequence Number 420. The final item is MSC-4: 73:45:35; and these are deleted due to weather.
72:41:22	C	Roger. Thank you.
72:41:24	CC	Roger. Everything looks good from the ground. We have nothing further for you. We're standing by.
72:41:29	C	Thank you.
72:45:04	CC	Gemini VII, Carnarvon CAP COM.
72:45:07	C	Go ahead, Carnarvon.
72:45:08	CC	Roger. Would you check your fuel cell hydrogen pressure please?
72:45:15	C	Roger. I'm reading 360 about.
72:45:29	C	What do you read?
72:45:31	CC	Okay. Gemini VII, what we would like to do is have you keep it between 445 and 500.
72:45:39	C	Okay. I was working the minimum on it. They gave me the minimum on 333.
72:45:44	CC	Okay. Flight just said he would like for you to

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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.