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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. 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…

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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.