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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

25:35:34	CC	Roger.
26:22:03	CC	Gemini VII, Carnarvon CAP COM. We have nothing for you this pass. We're standing by. You look good on the ground.
26:22:16	C	This is VII. Roger. Stand by, we have a question for you.
26:22:19	CC	Roger.
26:22:37	C	Carnarvon, VII.
26:22:39	CC	Roger, VII.
26:22:41	C	We have an MSC-2 and 3 update, and when we copied it down, the time was 29 plus 00 plus 00; Sequence Number 03; and the remarks were stop at 29 plus 00 plus 00. We feel that we have one of the times wrong. Could you check that out for us?
26:23:06	CC	The stop time was at 29:20 plus 00.
26:23:12	C	Roger. 29:20 plus 00 and the - stand by now for the S-8/D-13 daily scores.
26:23:28	CC	Roger. We're standing by.
26:23:53	C	Lovell at 06 plus 53 with minus 4; Borman was minus 10. Lovell at 19 plus 10 was minus 7, and Borman was minus 10.
26:24:18	CC	Okay. Gemini VII, Carnarvon. I copy Borman at 06 plus 53 was a minus 4, Borman at a minus 10 -
26:24:42	CC	Lovell at 19 plus 10 was a minus 7, Borman was a minus 10.
26:24:54	C	That's Roger.
26:28:23	CC	Gemini VII, Carnarvon. We copied a Fuel Cell O2 Quantity read. We were reading out 95.2 percent here on the ground.

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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.