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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…
## CONFIDENTIAL

94:19:18	C	Roger. We have it.
94:19:21	CC	Step 3: If normal calibration not successful, repeat calibration without depressing Cal button. Track Venus for 15 seconds. Move and count gain wheel turns to maximum. Continue tracking to occultation and report results. Do you copy?
94:19:31	P	Roger. Understand.
94:20:14	C	Roger. Got it.
94:20:15	CC	Caution: Ground equipment tests show that sunlight on the photo tube can have an adverse effect even with the power off. So we'd like to advise you to keep the unit out of the sunlight at all times, or any bright light.
94:20:32	P	Roger. Understand.
94:20:37	CC	Like to advise you that the weather is marginal for your MSC-4 pass on White Sands on the next revolution. We hope to try to get you a weather update on this at Carnarvon so you - we might be able to tell you just not to unstow the gear.
94:20:55	P	Roger. That's a shame. We were looking forward to that one.
94:20:59	P	Roger. ...
94:21:02	CC	Roger. So are we.
94:21:03	P	Where's the ...
94:21:09	P	No, I was looking for the log book ...
94:21:11	CC	That's all I have right now. We're standing by for a completion of the manual tape dump. I'll call you on that in just a minute.
94:21:14	C	Roger.
94:21:17	P	... log book ...
94:21:22	CC	Haven't had a chance to try out that flight suit, have you?

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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.