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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

115:55:35	C	Very well, we will start drinking.
115:55:39	CC	Very well, this is Carnarvon ... out.
115:55:41	C	I've got the gun out now.
115:55:50	C	Carnarvon, Gemini VII.
115:55:52	CC	Go ahead, Gemini VII. Carnarvon.
115:55:54	C	You probably noticed that our suit temperature's going down now. Our cabin temperature's also going down since we've turned the Cabin Heat exchanger to the ON position. We feel that when in doubt, do nothing. We've done nothing and it seems to be clearing up.
115:56:10	CC	Roger, Gemini VII.
115:56:13	C	And if we get hot, we'll take Flight's advice and turn on Pump A and turn off Pump B on the primary loop.
115:56:18	CC	Roger.
115:56:24	C	If we're going to stay one suit on and one suit off, we'd like to stay the way we are until Tom and Wally come up, and Jim'll get back in his suit. I prefer not to switch out and have him get back in. Let's go the way we are if we have to stay with one suit on.
115:56:37	CC	Roger. We'll relay this on to Flight.
115:56:40	C	Thank you.
115:56:45	C	Wonder if we're all going to see you all in the daylight.
115:56:48	CC	What say, Gemini VII?
115:56:50	C	I wonder if we're going to see you in the daylight.
115:56:52	CC	Yes, we should hear, maybe in a couple more days.
115:56:55	CC	Flight reported that they wanted to talk to you some more on this suit problem, over the next pass.

## 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.