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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

91:05:00	P	Roger.
91:05:01	CC	... cuff full-scale here.
91:05:07	P	Understand Chuck. Actually, the way that we normally eat a meal - we pitch the water with the meal; therefore, we have one drink either before or after the meal. That'll be all during that meal period.
91:05:20	CC	Well, Jim, what we really want is your total that you've had up until that meal time. So in essence, each time you would report that. If you reported two meals, we would get two different totals - a total at each meal time, and then we would get a total at the time that you are reporting, if you're reporting at some time other than just right at a meal time. Does that - do you follow that?
91:05:45	P	We follow, but I think we get a little complicated in our procedures.
91:05:50	CC	Okay. If that - if you can't read that directly right off of your log, we won't do it, Jim. If it's a lot of calculation, we don't want to do it.
91:06:03	CC	We do have this valid blood pressure, Jim. We have a couple of other questions here now. Can we get your food, water and sleep report? Let's do food and water first.
91:06:13	P	Roger. Stand by.
91:06:23	P	Roger. Stand by.
91:06:24	CC	Jim, this is Houston Flight. I didn't understand it. I don't know whether you did or not.
91:06:28	P	We're doing our best, Chris. ... the Command Pilot water to date is 345 ounces.
91:06:38	CC	345.
91:06:40	P	Roger. And we ate a meal about at 89:30. D-4, Meal A.
91:06:51	CC	89:30, 4-A.

## 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.