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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. 95 …13.3 Borman. Is that correct? 27:05:18 P Roger. Frank caught that out about…
  • p. 127 …45:07:38 CC I'd like also to tell you, Frank, that we're very…
  • p. 240 …89:09:34 C Borman's dumping urine. Urine's approximately 1 minute. P Standing by…
  • p. 307 …Colonel Frank Borman on the pulled muscle of his leg. 101:49:24 C ... my left…
  • p. 332 …115:58:59 C Okay, it's also Borman's. 115:59:01 CC Roger. Concerning…

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112:43:13	CC	I'd also like an OAMS propellant quantity readout, please.
112:43:18	C	52 to 53 percent.
112:43:26	CC	Repeat, Gemini VII. I did not copy.
112:43:31	C	About 52 to 53 percent.
112:43:34	CC	Roger. Copy.
112:43:39	CC	Also, I'd like to complete the flight plan update you were getting over Canary whenever you're ready to copy, please.
112:43:42	C	We're ready. Go ahead.
112:43:50	CC	Okay. Did you get the lll - sorry, 113:30:00 time?
112:44:00	P	Back up the time 113:40:00, but that's all. He faded out then.
112:44:32	CC	At Canary.
112:44:42	CC	Okay. 114:16:00: crew status report for the Command Pilot at Carnarvon.
112:44:58	P	Roger.
112:45:00	CC	115:01:00: crew status report, Pilot, at Carnarvon.
112:45:11	P	Right.
112:45:12	CC	S-6: Time, 115:18:28; Sequence Number 10; Remarks, pitch 30 degrees down, yaw 12 degrees left.
112:45:34	P	Roger.
112:45:35	CC	Okay. That completes the flight plan update. You're looking good here on the ground. We'll be standing by if you need us.
112:45:43	P	Roger. ...
112:45:47	CC	Very good.

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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.