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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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92:46:36	P	Incidentally, Elliot, I bet somebody in MSC that I'd have to turn the hydrogen heater on last night and I had to.
92:46:45	CC	Roger. Looks like we're picking up all kinds of goodies around here.
92:46:49	P	I think it was Mr. Kraft I bet.
92:46:53	CC	You say that was Mr. Kraft you bet?
92:46:55	CC	No, that wasn't me you bet.
92:47:00	P	Okay.
92:47:03	CC	I'd like to make you some - all kinds of bets down here that we could turn on the auto heater on the hydrogen and forget it.
92:47:10	P	Roger. I had it on this morning for just a while and then they told me to turn it off over Australia, or somewhere.
92:47:16	CC	Roger.
92:47:20	CC	Well, the people in the back room are not quite ready to do the hydrogen one, but I'm pretty certain you could.
92:47:35	CC	How you making out after 4 days?
92:47:37	P	We're doing pretty good, Chris. It's amazing. The spacecraft seems to be getting bigger and bigger. Either we're losing weight or we're getting used to it. I don't know which.
92:47:45	CC	Very good.
92:47:47	CC	Gemini VII, the Surgeon would like to make a comment to you - to - to you - about this external lead again.
92:47:54	CC	Jim, would you check that external lead pretty carefully if you're going to put on that other garment? It looks like it probably was loose. I don't know if - it has been going somewhat erratic still. It looks pretty good most of the

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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.