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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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79:14:24	P	It's OFF.
79:14:26	CC	Roger. We have nothing else for you this pass. We have you GO on the ground.
79:14:31	P	Thank you. Be sure you wake us up as we start to get - I don't want to go into ... with those bottles.
79:14:37	CC	Roger. Will do.
79:15:21	CC	Gemini VII, CSQ.
79:15:23	C	Go ahead.
79:15:25	CC	The lower limit on your fuel cell H2 on-board reading is 300 psi.
79:15:33	C	Roger. I'm not sure that the bottle will stabilize. I think it might be below there even though the people in Houston don't feel it will, so all I'm saying is if it starts to get that low, please wake us up.
79:15:43	CC	Roger. Will do.
79:15:50	C	Purge complete, CSQ.
79:16:07	CC	Gemini VII, CSQ. We confirm that the decay rate on the H2 is 6 psi per hour and that's a trend established over a 24-hour period.
79:16:17	C	Thank you.
88:16:26	C	And we're taking the shots now at 88:15:50 and boy, they're phenomenal over Africa! We just woke up and saw this long stream of clouds. Look like ... Okay, we just wasted ... high-speed ...
88:16:27	C	Okay. 88:19:07: taking a picture of land, water, and beautiful clouds. We just woke up with ... over Africa. Big ... Magazine M, Exposure 16.
88:16:32	C	Okay. We just took another picture of the Nile valley at 88:21. Magazine M, Frame 2P, evaluating Apollo Landmark Number 51 the ... and another shot of the Dead Sea here and that's it ...

## 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.