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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. 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

03:26:15	CC	Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. How do you read?
03:26:25	CC	Gemini VII, Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. How do you read?
03:26:45	CC	Gemini VII, Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. How do you read through Ascension?
03:26:52	C	Houston, this is VII. How do you read?
03:26:55	CC	Roger. Read you loud and clear. Based on the results during the purge, we feel that the Delta-P light may very possibly be erroneous; at any rate, we do not see a problem of a short-time nature. We will continue to observe it. We are not very concerned about it at this point and we'd like you to feel the same way.
03:27:21	C	This is VII and I thank you for your information that the light is not dangerous.
03:27:25	CC	Roger.
03:32:17	CC	Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM.
03:32:21	C	This is Gemini VII.
03:32:24	CC	Roger. I'd like to advise you Spica is not a perfect pointing command. Are you aware of that?
03:32:39	CC	Gemini VII, do you read?
03:32:40	C	Roger, we read. Spica is a little bit to our right. Is that not correct?
03:32:45	CC	The pointing command to Spica would be 8 degrees yaw right and 12 degrees pitch up, so for your purposes you would want to go left and down.
03:33:04	C	Roger.
03:33:05	CC	Roger.

## CONFIDENTIAL

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