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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. 95 …13.3 Borman. Is that correct? 27:05:18 P Roger. Frank caught that out about…
  • p. 127 …45:07:38 CC I'd like also to tell you, Frank, that we're very…
  • p. 240 …89:09:34 C Borman's dumping urine. Urine's approximately 1 minute. P Standing by…
  • p. 307 …Colonel Frank Borman on the pulled muscle of his leg. 101:49:24 C ... my left…
  • p. 332 …115:58:59 C Okay, it's also Borman's. 115:59:01 CC Roger. Concerning…

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# CONFIDENTIAL

## CANTON

23:31:42	CC	Gemini VII, Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. How do you read?
23:32:20	CC	Gemini VII, Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. How do you read?
23:32:28	C	Read you weak but clear.
23:32:31	CC	Roger. We want the fuel cell purge at Texas instead of Guaymas. Do you read?
23:32:40	P	Roger. We'll be ready to purge when we cross near Texas.
23:32:45	CC	Roger.
23:32:46	P	Thank you.

## TEXAS

23:51:57	CC	Gemini VII, Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. How do you read?
23:52:09	CC	Gemini VII, Houston. How do you read?
23:52:13	C	Houston, I read you loud and clear.
23:52:15	CC	Roger. You have a GO for 31-1. Stand by to receive a TR update.
23:52:24	P	Roger. ... to go at 31-1.
23:52:35	CC	Gemini VII. Did you get an update indication?
23:52:40	P	This is VII. Roger. DCS light ... up.
23:52:42	CC	Roger. Checks out good here too.
23:52:45	CC	Standing by for fuel cell purge.
23:52:50	P	Roger.

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.