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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

89:45:26	CC	Okay. Quantity Read switch to FUEL CELL H2.
89:45:30	P	Quantity, H2 - and we're reading 87 percent at 400.
89:45:40	CC	Roger.
89:45:58	CC	The Quantity Read switch to OFF - and thank you.
89:46:03	P	Roger.

## CARNARVON

90:17:58 CC Gemini VII, Carnarvon CAP COM.

90:18:19 C Go ahead, Carnarvon. Gemini VII.

90:18:21 CC Roger. Good morning from Australia. I have a flight plan update, a brief one, and also your PLA update for you when you are ready to copy.

90:18:31 C Roger. Go ahead with flight plan.

90:18:37 CC Roger. It's five items. The first one is Nodal Crossing: Time, 92:25:19; Remarks, Rev 58; 137 degrees west; right ascension 11:56:08. Second item: Time 90:50:00; that will be a cabin temperature survey. Third item: Time, 91:03:00; that's a crew status report over the Cape. Time: 19:17:08; that will be a crew status report on the Pilot at Canaries.

90:19:49 C The last one should be 91.

90:19:51 CC Roger. That's affirmative, Gemini VII. 91.

90:19:55 C Okay. Is that it?

90:19:57 CC Okay. And the slight change to the flight plan you will be updated with a complete flight plan at 90 hours and 10 minutes.

90:20:10 C We're already past that.

90:20:22 CC Roger. Gemini VII. What they mean here is that the time line has changed by 10 minutes as of 90 hours.

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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.