Documents / Official release

Gemini VII Air-to-Ground Transcript Volume I: 5011500_VolumeI

· 341 pages · text by OCR

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.

Open the PDF at page 40 Original source ↗

“Rogers”60+ pages

  • p. 2 …00:00:54 CC Roger. 00:00:59 P ... 00:01:02 CC Roger. 5.6…
  • p. 3 …00:02:05 C Roger. Stage 2 ... 00:02:07 CC Roger. Stage 2 GO. 00…
  • p. 4 …00:04:21 P Roger. Gemini VII is GO. 00:04:24 CC Roger. 00:04…
  • p. 5 …00:05:40 CC Roger. SECO. 00:05:41 C Bingo! 00:05:45 C It…
  • p. 6 …00:06:33 P Boy, it's going to be - give them a Roger. 00:06…
  • p. 7 …00:07:44 CC Roger. 00:07:45 P Oh, good. 00:07:53 P Now…
  • p. 8 …00:08:47 CC Roger. Understand. Going very well. 00:08:57 P Okay - going to…
  • p. 9 …00:09:55 P Roger. The booster is venting tremendously. 00:10:03 CC Roger, Gemini…
  • p. 14 …Carnarvon, how do you read us? 00:16:11 CC Roger. Read you loud and clear…
  • p. 15 …00:16:49 C Roger. 37. 00:16:50 CC Roger. 00:16:51 P Hey…
  • p. 16 …00:17:53 CC Roger. We'd also like you to put your C adapter at…
  • p. 17 …May I have a fuel cell O2 reading from you, please? 00:20:07 C Roger…
  • p. 20 …How do you read us? 00:23:00 CC Roger. Loud and clear. We're standing…
  • p. 21 ## CONFIDENTIAL 00:23:48 CC Roger. 23 plus 17. 00:23:50 P And tell him…
  • p. 22 …Did you copy? 00:25:13 C Roger. 00:25:14 CC Did you copy the…
  • p. 23 ## CONFIDENTIAL 00:25:41 P That's Roger. 00:25:43 CC Is the Delta-P…
  • p. 24 ## CONFIDENTIAL 00:27:22 C What? 00:27:25 P Roger. 00:27:26 CC Roger…
  • p. 25 ## CONFIDENTIAL 00:30:02 C Roger. Going off. 00:30:04 C It's now 2…
  • p. 26 00:49:51 C Roger. 00:49:55 P VII, fuel cell ... 00:49:56 C…
  • p. 27 ## CONFIDENTIAL 00:51:23 C Roger. 00:51:29 P ... update ...? 00:51:44 CC Houston…
  • p. 28 ## CONFIDENTIAL 00:55:04 CC Roger. Copy. 22 plus 17. 00:55:43 P Carnarvon, this…
  • p. 29 ## CONFIDENTIAL 01:12:22 CC Roger. Understand you are reading weak but clear. We are continuing…
  • p. 30 # CONFIDENTIAL 01:19:20 C Roger. 01:19:22 CC Okay. Set up 80 minutes to…
  • p. 31 …01:31:35 CC Roger, Frank. We've been continuing to discuss the Fuel Cell light…
  • p. 32 …01:33:37 CC Roger. 01:33:40 C We had difficulty getting a good glimpse…
  • p. 33 …01:37:27 CC Roger. 01:37:55 C Go ahead. We're ready to copy…
  • p. 34 01:43:37 CC Roger. 01:43:50 CC Gemini VII, is that the booster or…
  • p. 35 …01:45:43 CC Roger. What direction is it from you? 01:45:56 C It…
  • p. 36 …02:13:01 CC Roger. Just checking communications through Tananarive. We weren't able to get…
  • p. 37 …02:26:36 CC Roger. Copy 99.9, 250 pounds. 02:26:40 C Roger. 02…
  • p. 38 …02:27:10 CC Roger. Understand. 02:27:16 C Carnarvon, will you check with Houston…
  • p. 39 …Will you give me the time that you activated M-1? 02:52:03 P Roger…
  • p. 40 ## CONFIDENTIAL 03:03:06 CC Roger. 03:04:44 CC Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. How…
  • p. 41 …03:10:48 CC Roger. 03:10:52 C Fuel cell purge is complete. 03:10…
  • p. 42 ## CONFIDENTIAL 03:12:14 C Roger. Go ahead. 03:12:16 CC Time: 3 plus 30…
  • p. 43 …03:18:45 CC Roger. Spica is very close. 03:18:48 P Did you receive…
  • p. 44 …03:33:04 C Roger. 03:33:05 CC Roger. ## CONFIDENTIAL
  • p. 45 …03:43:55 CC Roger. We're standing by for your burn. No special information. 03…
  • p. 46 …04:00:39 P Roger. That's just completed. 04:00:41 CC Roger. 04:00…
  • p. 47 …04:03:15 P VII, Roger. 04:03:20 CC That's all we have for…
  • p. 48 …04:26:32 C Roger. Understand. We're right on the profile. 04:26:34 CC…
  • p. 49 …04:37:17 CC Roger. Everything looks good here on the ground. 04:37:20 C…
  • p. 50 ## CONFIDENTIAL 04:43:40 CC Roger. Understand that you've got a shadow. Then you might…
  • p. 51 ## CONFIDENTIAL 04:46:40 P Roger. Understand. 04:56:05 C Okay. Stand by. This is…
  • p. 52 ## CONFIDENTIAL 04:59:33 CC Roger. 05:05:19 CC Gemini VII, RKV CAP COM. 05…
  • p. 53 ## CONFIDENTIAL 05:21:40 P Roger. 05:21:42 CC I didn't understand your reply…
  • p. 54 …05:45:51 C Roger. Understand. 05:45:52 CC Roger. 05:45:54 CC I…
  • p. 55 …06:02:03 CC Roger. 06:02:17 CC Okay. We copied that. Stand by for…
  • p. 56 …06:17:43 CC Roger. We are not receiving it. 06:18:25 C Houston, Gemini…
  • p. 57 ## CONFIDENTIAL 06:19:35 CC Roger. The crew status report from the Lovell house remains at…
  • p. 58 …06:36:55 CC Roger. 06:36:59 C RKV, this is Gemini VII. What beacon…
  • p. 59 …07:18:35 CC Roger. You're GO on the ground. Standing by. ## HAWAII 07:37…
  • p. 60 …08:53:53 CC Roger. Did you do your fuel cell purge at ...? 08:53:59…
  • p. 61 …10:50:46 CC You copy that? 10:50:53 C VII, Roger. 10:50:55…
  • p. 62 …11:20:44 P Roger. Understand. Open D-4/D-7 - correction, open ACQ-AID circuit…
  • p. 63 …12:07:23 C Roger. Will you tell Houston that we're both catching catnaps now…
  • p. 64 ## CONFIDENTIAL 12:09:59 CC Roger. Copy. 12:10:06 CC You tell us about how…
  • p. 65 …13:43:47 CC Roger. We copy your purge. Would you give us your Quantity Read…
  • p. 66 …18:29:18 CC Roger. Understand. It came on at 15:22 and it's back…
  • p. 67 ## CONFIDENTIAL 18:31:38 CC Roger. We'd just as soon have you go back to…
## CONFIDENTIAL

03:03:06	CC	Roger.
03:04:44	CC	Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. How do you read?
03:05:09	CC	Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. How do you read?
03:05:13	C	Loud and clear ...
03:05:15	CC	Roger. We're ready for you to start your fuel cell purge now and you might - stand by a minute, stand by VII -
03:05:25	CC	Gemini VII, now we're ready for you to start your fuel cell purge and you might observe the Fuel Cell light when you turn the crossover valve on. We think it may go off at that time.
03:05:36	P	Roger. Understand.
03:05:40	P	Starting purge. The crossover valve is on but the light did not go out.
03:05:47	CC	Roger.
03:09:14	C	Houston, this is Gemini VII. The booster is just passing the horizon, the outer air ...
03:10:07	CC	Gemini VII, we observe you've completed your negative, we understand you're still purging.
03:10:13	C	That's Roger.
03:10:15	C	How do you read now, Houston?
03:10:17	CC	Loud and clear.
03:10:18	C	Did you get my information about the booster crossing the horizon?
03:10:21	CC	Roger. We did. I was off the channel myself but someone else heard it.
03:10:33	CC	Still got that Delta-P light?
03:10:35	C	Roger.
03:10:36	CC	Did you get lights during the hydrogen purging?

Cases discussed

About this file

Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 341 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.