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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.

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  • p. 17 …Group 4 ON ... safe. Stand by. 00:19:31 C Still got a Delta-P light…
  • p. 20 …re performing D-4/D-7. 00:23:09 CC Roger, Gemini VII. 00:23:12…
  • p. 23 …00:27:19 CC Gemini VII, Houston. Is the D-4/D-7 going satisfactorily? 00…
  • p. 25 …20 for D-4/D-7. ## TANANARIVE 00:36:52 CC Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM…
  • p. 27 …Copy powering down D-4/D-7. 00:52:35 CC Gemini VII, your GMT lift…
  • p. 30 …01:20:17 C The D-4/D-7 recorder was on for 26 minutes. 01…
  • p. 34 …01:43:50 CC Gemini VII, is that the booster or is that an actual sighting…
  • p. 35 …01:52:44 P D-4/D-7, D-4/D-7 at 1 plus 52…
  • p. 36 …D-4/D-7 at 2 plus 04 plus 40; 2 minutes on Sirius; D-4…
  • p. 39 …4/D-7 recorder. 02:53:07 CC Roger. Understand. GUAYMAS 03:02:30 CC Gemini…
  • p. 47 …04:05:48 CC Gemini VII, Carnarvon. We have indication here on the ground of an…
  • p. 48 …04:27:18 C Hawaii, this is Gemini VII. 04:27:20 CC Go ahead, Gemini…
  • p. 54 …Remarks, Rev 4; 115.0 east; 13 hours 45 minutes 35 seconds; right ascension. Do you…
  • p. 55 …Command Pilot, 4 ounces and Pilot, 2 ounces so far. 06:04:22 CC Roger. 06…
  • p. 58 …This is Gemini VII. Go ahead on the update. 06:55:35 CC Okay. D-4…
  • p. 59 …Roger on the D-4/D-7. 06:56:44 CC This is Houston. Roger. ## COASTAL…
  • p. 62 …11:21:54 C RKV, this is Gemini VII. Did you get our D-4/D…
  • p. 63 …D-4/D-7 at 10:45:10; recorder running for 30 seconds. That was Ziegler…
  • p. 65 …CSQ, Gemini VII. Purge complete. 13:43:47 CC Roger. We copy your purge. Would you…
  • p. 69 …20:49:25 CC We have a D-4/D-7 at 22 plus 56 plus…
  • p. 74 …TEXAS 22:17:13 CC Gemini VII, Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. How do you read…
  • p. 78 …And down at the Cape things are going real good setting up Gemini VI. They're…
  • p. 79 …4/D-7, and that's what - 309, 09. Right? ## BERMUDA 22:29:38 CC Gemini…
  • p. 80 …18-4: 28:07:21; 15 plus 15. 19-4: 29:42:38; 14 plus 34…
  • p. 81 …D-4/D-7; Sequence 09; 2 minutes. 23:11:46 P D-4/D-7…
  • p. 86 # CONFIDENTIAL 24:01:29 CC Gemini VII. Do you have any S-8/D-13 vision…
  • p. 89 ## CONFIDENTIAL ## HAWAII 25:13:15 CC Gemini VII, Hawaii CAP COM. 25:13:18 C This…
  • p. 91 …Go ahead, Gemini VII. 25:30:07 P Roger. Got the sight ... I read a 3…
  • p. 92 …MSC-12 at 27:00:39; D-4/D-7 at 27:00:39; all three…
  • p. 93 …Okay. Gemini VII, Carnarvon. I copy Borman at 06 plus 53 was a minus 4, Borman…
  • p. 103 …Sequence 4: verify motor running by sound. We will like an answer to this later, either…
  • p. 106 …31:18:49 CC Stand by, Gemini VII. 31:19:19 CC Gemini VII, CSQ. Would…
  • p. 115 …D-4/D-7: 47:55:31; Sequence 430; Mode 04; pitch 35 degrees down, yaw…
  • p. 116 …The last two items were the MSC-2 and 3 and the D-4/D-7…
  • p. 117 …Area 32-4: 50:27:35; 16 plus 40. Area 33-4: 52:03:30; 15…
  • p. 121 …meals, Day 3, Meal 4. 44:48:32 CC Roger. 44:48:34 P Third meal…
  • p. 123 …44:51:47 CC Gemini VII, like to advise you that we have studied the Cryo…
  • p. 127 …Here's an item about Gemini VII. It says: "Astronauts Borman and Lovell report all is…
  • p. 135 …46:25:22 C 1A, 4 amps; 1B, 4 amps; 1C, 4.5 amps; 2A, 4…
  • p. 137 …46:35:52 C Go ahead, Gemini VII. 46:35:53 C Roger. 46:35:54…
  • p. 139 …correction, 47:20 experimenting completed; Sequences 414 and 413; D-4/D-7 completed at 47…
  • p. 142 …HAWAII 47:27:38 CC Gemini VII, Cape. 47:27:47 CC Gemini VII, Houston. 47…
  • p. 145 …The D-4 is still on schedule. 47:49:46 P Roger. D-4 on schedule…
  • p. 146 …47:56:52 CC Gemini VII, do you have guidance initiate? 47:56:57 C Roger…
  • p. 147 …D-4/D-7; 430 went off perfectly. 47:58:10 CC Gemini VII, did you…
  • p. 150 …D-4/D-7: the Sequence is 406 at 49:46; performed; the moon's so…
  • p. 153 …D-4/D-7: 50:56:00; 418, and that was Sequence 418; Mode 02; pitch…
  • p. 156 …Gemini VII. On the update we gave you this morning you noted that the D-4…
  • p. 162 …Gemini VII, performing the D-4/D-7. 51:01:25 CC Roger, Houston. 51:01…
  • p. 167 …52:38:10 CC Roger, Gemini VII. We copy the report. Surgeon out. 52:38:14…
  • p. 172 ## CONFIDENTIAL 53:58:34 CC Roger, Gemini VII. Surgeon out. 53:58:43 CC VII, like…
  • p. 187 …47-4: 74:23:33; 17 plus 50. 48-4: 75: 59:34; 16 plus 45…
  • p. 190 ## CONFIDENTIAL 68:41:51 CC D-4/D-7: 71:47:26; Sequence 419; Mode 02…
  • p. 191 …You should aline 4.9 degrees right of Arcturus. Do you copy? 68:45:53 P…
  • p. 193 …KANO 69:02:06 CC Gemini VII, Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. Do you read? ## CONFIDENTIAL
  • p. 202 …CANARY 70:31:16 CC Gemini VII, Canary ... read. 70:31:33 C Canary, this is…
  • p. 204 ## CONFIDENTIAL 71:32:54 CC D-4/D-7: 71:47:26; Sequence 419; Mode 02…
  • p. 210 …Gemini VII, Houston. Do you know roughly what the time left on your D-4 recorder…
  • p. 211 # CONFIDENTIAL ## CARNARVON 72:40:10 CC Gemini VII, Carnarvon CAP COM. 72:40:25 C Carnarvon…
  • p. 213 …TEXAS 73:17:27 CC Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. 73:17:36 CC Gemini VII…

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01:45:29	C	Houston, this is VII.
01:45:33	CC	Go ahead.
01:45:34	C	I have the booster on my side and the brilliant body of the sun against a black background with billions of particles around it.
01:45:43	CC	Roger. What direction is it from you?
01:45:56	C	It's about 2:00 o'clock position.
01:45:51	CC	Does that mean it's ahead of you?
01:45:55	C	It's - ahead of us at 2:00 o'clock and it's slowly tumbling.
01:45:59	CC	Roger.
01:52:44	P	D-4/D-7, D-4/D-7 at 1 plus 52 plus 54; 12 plus 52 plus 34, 2 minutes in void measurements. Void measurement is completed; going to take a measurement on Rigel - take a measurement on Rigel. Stand by for a time.
01:54:30	CC	Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM.
01:54:33	C	Go ahead Houston, Gemini VII.
01:54:35	CC	Roger. We're in contact at Ascension. We have no special messages. We're standing by.
01:54:38	C	We'll continue our D-4/D-7 on - at this time.
01:54:42	CC	Roger.
01:56:55	P	D-4/D-7 at 01 plus 56 plus 53; 2 minutes of measurement on Rigel; recorder on. At approximately 1 plus 57 booster is deadahead.
01:57:16	C	Thank you.
02:01:20	P	Roger. At 2:01:17 we're taking recordings on boosters. This is right near Sirius. Who takes the measurement on the booster? Then it will go right down to Sirius. 2 minutes off the booster and then we're going to 2 minutes on Sirius

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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.