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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

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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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.