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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. 51 …This is Borman dumping urination. Right now. 04:56:06 C It's not dumping. 04…
  • p. 65 …P ... Ha! 13:59:09 P Okay. Borman urination at 13 ... SC O₂ on at 16…
  • p. 72 …That last dump was the courtesy of Borman. In a minute, we will have Lovell. Stand…
  • p. 93 …I copy Borman at 06 plus 53 was a minus 4, Borman at a minus 10…
  • p. 94 …That's Borman. I couldn't see them this time.
  • p. 95 …13.3 Borman. Is that correct? 27:05:18 P Roger. Frank caught that out about…
  • p. 104 …30:57:18 C This is Borman urinating. Document urination. 30:57:20 P My! 30…
  • p. 127 …It says: "Astronauts Borman and Lovell report all is well aboard their Gemini VII." You know…
  • p. 149 …48:07:29 C This is Borman about to make a urine dump. Turn on the…
  • p. 169 …53:38:56 C On the S-8/D-13, Lovell missed 8 and Borman missed…
  • p. 187 …68:31:02 C This is Borman dumping urine also. 68:33:10 P Urine, dump…
  • p. 234 …13 before, but here they are again. Borman missed 7, Lovell missed 11 this morning. 77…
  • p. 240 …89:09:34 C Borman's dumping urine. Urine's approximately 1 minute. P Standing by…
  • p. 254 …92:38:18 CC The Gemini - Gemini VII story today says: "Borman Hitches GT-VII to…
  • p. 274 …94:43:04 C Borman about to dump urine. 94:46. 94:52:53 C Okay…
  • p. 302 …58 C S-8/D-13 score: Borman was -8, Lovell -7. 100:49:04 CC…
  • p. 307 …Colonel Frank Borman on the pulled muscle of his leg. 101:49:24 C ... my left…
  • p. 311 …102:19:52 P Borman dumps here. 102:19:59 P Borman dumping here. You have…
  • p. 320 …They want to discuss Lovell getting back into the suit and Borman getting out. Did you…
  • p. 332 …115:58:59 C Okay, it's also Borman's. 115:59:01 CC Roger. Concerning…

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## CONFIDENTIAL

115:04:13	CC	Frank, would you check the Suit Temperature valve for FULL-COLD position? Our data show that it is not at that position.
115:04:22	C	Say again, please.
115:04:23	CC	Would you check the Suit Temperature valve position? Our data do not show FULL-COLD.
115:04:32	C	It would take three men and a boy to move it and I've got it as tight as we can get it.
115:04:37	CC	Roger.
115:04:49	CC	Frank, how about trying the Cabin Temperature valve a little cooler?
115:04:54	C	That will cut off some of the coolant loop's flow through the suit loop and should make us hotter.
115:05:00	CC	Why don't you give it a try?
115:05:04	C	All right.
115:05:08	CC	Gemini VII, this is Surgeon. Jim, we're still not getting a valid blood pressure here. We're not seeing any trace of it. Let's don't try and repeat it here, but I wish you would check. Check in your microphone and the cuff there before you do any changing with the - with the suit configuration. And also, did you have to do anything to those sensors other than just press on that external sensor yesterday?
115:05:32	P	Negative. I did not. The cuff's still way up. I could check it very easily here.
115:05:40	CC	All right. Fine.
115:05:43	CC	Frank, can you tell me what you had for sleep last night? We don't have that report yet. Could I get your sleep and the quality of it, also?
115:05:52	C	We slept about 6 to 7 hours last night. I think Jim slept sounder than I did. I was warm most of the evening.

## CONFIDENTIAL

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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.