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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.

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“Lovell”20 pages

  • 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…
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

## CONFIDENTIAL

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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 341 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.