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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

95:53:28	C	COMMAND on the Tape Playback.
95:54:31	CC	Gemini VII, Houston. Your orbit today is 127.5 by 170.7.
95:54:41	C	Roger. Thank you.
95:54:53	C	Elliot, what time do you want us to turn the C-Band adapter back to COMMAND, please?
95:54:59	CC	Is that the one I gave you a minute ago? Right. That's 96 plus 27.
95:55:05	C	Thank you.
95:55:35	CC	Gemini VII, place your Standby T/M switch to OFF.
95:55:42	P	OFF.
95:56:11	CC	Gemini VII, would you turn your ACQ-AID beacon on?
95:56:22	P	Beacon circuit breaker on.
95:56:27	CC	Understand. ACQ-AID circuit breaker on.
95:56:31	P	...
95:57:16	CC	Gemini VII, Houston. Is the music coming in okay today?
95:57:23	P	Loud and clear. Thank you Kraft Music Hall.
95:57:27	CC	Roger. The Director just took a bow.
95:59:05	CC	Gemini VII, turn your T/M switch to COMMAND.
95:59:10	P	T/M on COMMAND.
96:20:50	C	Okay. Special D.5/10 on ninth. Gain wheel full-down.
96:20:57	C	Temperature normal?
96:20:59	P	Yes. C food is stowed. ... with the reticle and screen. Calibrating button went down and ... gain wheel from full-left rotated clockwise. The reticle stays free. It will not switch. Stays free.

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.