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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

115:08:09	CC	Roger. I copied Gemini VII, Jim.
115:08:12	CC	Jim, we'd like to ask if you are - if this cabin temperature is comfortable for you in your present configuration or if you are also feeling somewhat warm?
115:08:25	P	I am at times plenty warm. It's 78 in the cabin and a comfortable temperature would be more like 72. However, I'm perfectly dry, much more free of freedom of movement, and certainly just as cool as I'd ever be in a suit.
115:08:43	CC	Roger.
115:08:47	C	Flight, I opened this Cabin Heat control now to FULL-COOL and the suit temperature's gone up about another half a degree since I did that.
115:08:55	CC	Roger. We concur. You can turn it back down.
115:09:04	CC	Frank, we are - as I said - we are working on the suit situation to accumulate further data. We would like to ask for Jim to put his suit back on and you to take yours off. Over.
115:09:22	P	Roger. I would prefer to leave it this way if you don't mind.
115:09:29	C	... be able to get back in and he's a lot bigger. Why do you want him to change?
115:09:36	CC	Roger, Gemini VII. The purpose was to accumulate more information on the suit situation. We have your input. If you are able to change suits, we can delete the cabin temperature survey at 115:40.
115:09:57	C	Okay. I would prefer - if we have to keep one suit on - I would prefer to have me keep my suit on and let Jim the way he is.
115:10:06	CC	Roger. We copy, Gemini VII. We will discuss it more with you at a later pass.
115:10:13	C	Roger. I also would like to go to two-suit compressors here if this keeps going up.

## 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.