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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

fine. One other thing that we might ask you real quickly about the sensors - we're having a little bit of erratic reading in Frank's respiration sensor, which we're not going to do anything about, unless he gets his suit off later. And the - his ECG leads are just fine, and so it can't be in the sensor itself. It's probably at the connection of the signal conditioner, which he can't get at there. Are you having any itching or problem with the sensors themselves?

91:09:45 P No, neither of us is having any trouble with the sensors. There's one ... advantage with this suitoff operation. I can see all mine, feel all mine and scratch around a bit, as a matter of fact.

91:09:56 CC Very good. Okay, we have nothing else here. I'm turning you back to the CAP COM.

91:10:03 CC Gemini VII, I'd like to start on your flight plan update if you're ready to copy.

91:10:09 P Stand by one.

91:10:13 C 91:01, 91:10; two pictures of overhead. One of weather.

91:10:16 P ...

91:10:18 P Go ahead.

91:10:19 CC S-5: 92:40:00; Sequence 15, Mode 01; pitch 90 degrees down, yaw zero degrees. S-5: 92:40:00; Sequence 12. We may lose contact here, Jim. I'll just keep reading and we'll get as much as we can and then I'll finish up on the next time around. Have you copied okay, so far?

91:10:55 P Keep going.

91:10:57 CC D-4/D-7: 93:13:00; Sequence 428; Mode 04; combine radiometer and IR spectrometer measurement. That is for a total of 4 minutes measurement. In other words, instead of doing each one 2 minutes, do them both for a total of 4 minutes. Do you copy?

91:11:32 P Roger.

## CONFIDENTIAL

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