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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. 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…

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## CONFIDENTIAL

77:33:48 C Go ahead, CSQ. Gemini VII.

77:33:51 CC Roger. We have you GO on the ground. We're standing by for your flight plan report.

77:33:56 C Roger. Today we've used one magazine of S0217 standard Hasselblad; 14 frames on the second magazine. We've shot six frames of color-shifted IR, five frames of Hasselblad high-speed black and white. One frame Hasselblad high-contrast, low-speed black and white. We've used two magazines of 16mm movie film and two tape recorder packages. I gave our scores on S-8/D-13 before, but here they are again. Borman missed 7, Lovell missed 11 this morning.

77:34:32 CC Repeat that last again, Gemini VII.

77:34:36 C Roger. Borman - 7, Lovell - 11 for S-8/D-13 visi sion test this morning.

77:34:41 CC Roger. Copied.

77:34:44 C My OAMS fuel now reads 57 percent.

77:34:49 CC Roger.

77:35:14 C Anything else, CSQ?

77:35:16 CC Negative. Gemini VII, we got it.

77:35:19 C Okay. Thank you.

77:36:16 P CSQ, Gemini VII.

77:36:19 CC Go ahead, Gemini VII.

77:36:20 P I inadvertently knocked off the electronic circuit breaker - Time Recorder circuit breaker again. Would you give me a time hack, please?

77:36:27 CC Roger. GET time hack 77:37 on my Mark. 20 seconds to Mark.

77:36:55 CC 5,4,3,2,1.

## 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.