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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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“Borman”20 pages

  • p. 51 …This is Borman dumping urination. Right now. 04:56:06 C It's not dumping. 04…
  • p. 65 …P ... Ha! 13:59:09 P Okay. Borman urination at 13 ... SC O₂ on at 16…
  • p. 72 …That last dump was the courtesy of Borman. In a minute, we will have Lovell. Stand…
  • p. 93 …I copy Borman at 06 plus 53 was a minus 4, Borman at a minus 10…
  • p. 94 …That's Borman. I couldn't see them this time.
  • p. 95 …13.3 Borman. Is that correct? 27:05:18 P Roger. Frank caught that out about…
  • p. 104 …30:57:18 C This is Borman urinating. Document urination. 30:57:20 P My! 30…
  • p. 127 …It says: "Astronauts Borman and Lovell report all is well aboard their Gemini VII." You know…
  • p. 149 …48:07:29 C This is Borman about to make a urine dump. Turn on the…
  • p. 169 …53:38:56 C On the S-8/D-13, Lovell missed 8 and Borman missed…
  • p. 187 …68:31:02 C This is Borman dumping urine also. 68:33:10 P Urine, dump…
  • p. 234 …13 before, but here they are again. Borman missed 7, Lovell missed 11 this morning. 77…
  • p. 240 …89:09:34 C Borman's dumping urine. Urine's approximately 1 minute. P Standing by…
  • p. 254 …92:38:18 CC The Gemini - Gemini VII story today says: "Borman Hitches GT-VII to…
  • p. 274 …94:43:04 C Borman about to dump urine. 94:46. 94:52:53 C Okay…
  • p. 302 …58 C S-8/D-13 score: Borman was -8, Lovell -7. 100:49:04 CC…
  • p. 307 …Colonel Frank Borman on the pulled muscle of his leg. 101:49:24 C ... my left…
  • p. 311 …102:19:52 P Borman dumps here. 102:19:59 P Borman dumping here. You have…
  • p. 320 …They want to discuss Lovell getting back into the suit and Borman getting out. Did you…
  • p. 332 …115:58:59 C Okay, it's also Borman's. 115:59:01 CC Roger. Concerning…
Time	Command	Description
74:16:23	CC	Gemini VII, Carnarvon CAP COM.
74:16:28	P	This is VII. Go ahead.
74:16:30	CC	Roger. I have one item here for you. It's a node update.
74:16:36	P	Roger. Stand by.
74:16:37	CC	Roger.
74:16:49	P	Go ahead.
74:16:52	CC	Roger. ... Time: 75:57:39; Rev 48; 115.9 degrees east; right ascension at 12:17:13, and that's it. We have nothing else for you. You look good here on the ground. We're standing by.
74:17:25	P	Roger. Thank you.
74:17:28	CC	Roger.
74:17:29	C	Carnarvon, this is Gemini VII.
74:17:31	CC	Roger.
74:17:32	C	Check with Flight. I understand he wants me to go to auto heaters. Is that correct?
74:17:38	CC	I think it was just during the sleep period. Stand by. I'll ... on that.
74:18:01	CC	Roger, Gemini VII. It will be only the auto heater on the RSS O₂ bottle during the sleep period. They'll brief you further on that again over the States.
74:18:12	C	Very well. Thank you.
74:18:14	CC	Roger.
74:18:17	C	That sure sounds like Gene ... It's not, is it?

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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 341 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.