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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

113:29:55	C	Roger. Houston. Gemini VII. We read you.
113:30:03	CC	Roger. Gemini VII. Did you get that update?
113:30:05	C	That's affirmative. Roger.
113:30:08	CC	Could I get a readback? Negative, you don't have to do that.
113:30:13	C	We got it.
113:30:17	CC	Did you sleep well last night?
113:30:20	C	Yes, except we were a little warm.
113:30:26	CC	CM4 says to get to work.
113:30:29	C	I hear him. Tell him to get his bloody eyes back on his homework.
113:31:18	CC	Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM.
113:31:20	P	This is VII. Go ahead Houston.
113:31:22	CC	Can I start giving you your big flight plan update for this morning? The next pass over the States will also be a crew status pass and it's a rather large - -
113:31:34	P	Roger. We can start taking the flight plan update.
113:31:38	CC	Okay. The first item is at 115:40:00: a cabin temperature survey.
113:31:49	C	Hey, Charlie?
113:31:50	CC	Right. Go ahead, Frank.
113:31:56	C	Listen, the cabin temperatures haven't varied much at all. Can we cut down the frequency of those to maybe once a day?
113:32:06	C	Do it this time, but ask them to cut the frequency then, will you? They haven't varied it 2 degrees over the whole flight.
113:32:10	CC	Sure. That'll be fine, Frank.

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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.