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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

20:48:44	CC	Okay. And we'd like for you to be prepared to give you as much - for you to give us as much data as you can on both of you since we're running a little behind at that time.
20:48:53	C	Roger.
20:48:55	CC	We have a Radar Transponder Test at 22 plus 20 plus 00; Sequence 01; Remarks, off at 22 plus 28 plus 00.
20:49:18	C	Roger.
20:49:25	CC	We have a D-4/D-7 at 22 plus 56 plus 00; Sequence 409 and 40 - correction 409 and 410; Mode 02. Do you copy?
20:49:45	C	Roger. Go ahead.
20:49:51	CC	We have a crew status report at Carnarvon on the Pilot at 23 plus 11 plus 00. We have exercise at 23 plus 21 plus 00. Do you copy okay?
20:50:11	C	Loud and clear.
20:50:15	CC	You can begin your eating preparation at 23 plus 31 plus 00. We have a fuel cell purge at 23 plus 40 plus 00. We have D-5 at 24 plus 15 plus 20; Sequence 01; Mode 01. We have S-8/D-13: 25 plus 28 plus 52; Sequence 02; pitch 30 down, yaw 13 degrees left; closest to purge, 25 plus 29 plus 47. Do you copy?
20:51:21	P	Roger. Understand. Do you want us to purge again at - in 3 hours? Is that correct?
20:51:29	CC	That's what we're planning at the present time, Gemini VII.
20:51:35	P	Okay.
20:51:45	P	Anything else, Elliot?
20:51:47	CC	Yes. I'll discuss the fuel cell with you here as soon as the purge is complete.
20:51:52	C	Purge is complete, Elliot.

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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.