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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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## CONFIDENTIAL

GRAND TURK ISLAND

113:26:58	CC	Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM.
113:27:00	C	Go ahead, Houston. Gemini VII.
113:27:02	CC	Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. This is the world's most untalkative CAP COM coming to you with the D-4/D-7.
113:27:10	C	Roger. Stand by a minute. How are you doing, Charles?
113:27:13	CC	I am doing fine, Frank. How are you today?
113:27:16	C	...
113:27:21	C	All right. Just a little warm.
113:27:23	CC	You're just a little warm. We're mighty proud of you guys, down here.
113:27:34	C	I'm ready, Charles.
113:27:35	CC	Okay. It's a D-4/D-7: Time, 113:57:37; Sequence 427; Mode 03; pitch 4 degrees down, yaw 115 degrees left; passing from right to left; closest approach at 113:58:00.
113:28:10	C	You faded.
113:28:12	CC	Say again?
113:28:15	CC	Your closest approach at 113:58:00; record 30 seconds maximum.
113:29:01	CC	Gemini VII, Houston. Did you read that update?
113:29:04	C	Negative, Charlie. You faded completely. I hear you now though.
113:29:07	CC	Okay. It's a D-4/D-7 at 113:57:37: Sequence Number 427; Mode 03; pitch 4 degrees down, yaw 115 degrees left; passing from right to left; closest approach at 113:58:00; record 30 seconds maximum.

## CONFIDENTIAL

Cases discussed

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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.