Otrobonita/noicy-space-talks huggingface dataset:
UNKNOWN: continuous. About a couple hours ago we turned it on and off and stepping in the sound cycle tones, and they are very dull in the ear. They may have been there, but I just can't tell you. Houston. Over. ROSE KNOT VICTOR minute. You look good from here. TANANARIVE How do you read? Tananarive. rive. COASTAL SENTRY QUEBEC down. We'11 have to purge now. down after the purge. HAWAII package. to 02, please? plus 12. Bank angle for all areas: roll left 85, roll right 95. 24-Delta: 36:48:57;19 plus 57, 24 plus 53. 25-2: 38:24:37; 19 plus 41, 25 plus 07. 26-2: 39:59:57; 19 plus 45, 25 plus 21. 27-Echo: 41:31:00; 34 plus 48, 38 plus 20. 28-1: 43:13:35; 34 plus 01, 37 plus 47. 29-1: 45:01:44; 20 plus 16, 26 plus 06. 30-1: 46:37:05; 20 plus 19, 26 plus 11. Sep Maneuver for all areas and weather is good in all areas. And I have a note for two of these areas. For Area 27-Echo and 28-1. Fire Rockets 1, 2 and 3 only at 0 degrees pitch attitude. Stand by for a minute. 28-1, it's 27 degrees. angle. last shift. of the office. again. in a little bit. Maybe I'11 have an answer for you on those ball angles for you over RKV. ROSE KNOT VICTOR please, so we can load a VM for it? angles, if one of you is ready to copy. different true anomalies than what were discussed with you. For Area 27-E, it's based on a true anomaly of 208 degrees; for Area 28-1, it's based on a true anomaly of 212 degrees. If you're going to do an OAMS Retro, it will be based on a true anomaly of 190 degrees and the other pertinent information associated with an OAMS Retro will be updated to you at that time. Do you copy? Flight Plan Update for you. 22; it will be Rev will be 11.7 degrees east, O1:12 right ascension. Second item is at Antigua at a time of 40:15:30. You'11 have a Crew Status Report. Over. We have a Delta-VM in and you can turn your Encoder back ON. I'd like to take a foxtrot.
C: Roger. from here. You're clear to turn them OFF.
C: Affirm. viated Crew Status Report?
CC: Roger. like John said. be up another 16 degrees. It will be right over the top.
P: 571. CANARY ISLANDS by for record data on VM ENABLE. here, Gemini XI. propulsion left. to free at 40:33:30, and would you have them com- pute the ball angles for that time, please, Sir? They'11 get that to you as soon as they can. CARNARVON it! window. left. dow except the 75mm16 camera. ready to copy. ahead and get our Agena tape dump. Your Area 28-1, your ball reading is UP 4. from - - way around about 150 degrees, including the hori- zon all the way around. for your Retro burn. 26, 80.6 degrees west; i hour, 4 minutes, right ascension. and put the Encoder ON. because we're very busy. We're looking straight down over Austrailia now. We have a terminator at our right window. We have the whole southern part of the world out one window. Utterly fantastic: Pete. Moving like a streak. hand is pretty far. We're almost on the other end of Australia. We should be coming up on apogee in 18 seconds. CANTON minute pass. down south? the terminator. Just a couple 3 degrees from setting - may be another few minutes. And the terminator passed us a long time ago. TEXAS plus 39; Delta-V, 911.8; Delta-TB, O1 plus 48; Address 25, 99118; PPS Burn TDA aft, Retrograde. we'11 look at it one more time. turn your Encoder ON. Over. LOS at Bermuda. CANARY ISLANDS your Encoder OFF.
C: Roger. about our LOS. You're still good. We'11 see you your next time around. KANO pictures. Canary? TANANARIVE until LOS and then you're at 625 miles. CARNARVON yet. and we'11 start the dump. down, but we rolled into the orbital plane now, preparatory to setting up the Agena. it. seconds. Okay. this time, BEF-SEF to the Spacecraft. CANTON to be going okay. Stand by for Retrograde. 1OOO kilometer time-to-climb. and we have 11 events. Over. ments on the view, the colors and everything you can get to? water really stands out and everything looks blue. Obviously the curvature of the earth stands out a lot. A lot of cloud coverage over the ocean. The ocean area, Africa, India and Australia were clear, however. clearly down as before. There's no loss of color and the details are still extremely good, even at that altitude.
CC: Roger. ·.. and see if we can catch up.
CC: Houston. Roger. onds until LOS at Canton.
CC: Canton approaching LOS. GUAYMAS right now? TEXAS your attitude holding good. V_ load one more time. ON. Your VM load is good.
CC: Roger. 501. BERMUDA ought to be interesting since the lighting condi- tions were different on each one. tune-up SPS burns for him. CANARY ISLANDS Encoder OFF so we can dump the Agena.
CC: Okay. Thank you. fuel cell purge, Section 2 then 1. Area 32-4: 51:04:03; 20 plus 21, 26 plus 12. Area 33-4: 52:39:40; 20 plus 18, 26 plus 17. Area 34-3: 53:58:15; 20 plus 17, 25 plus 56. Area 35-3: 55:34:31; 20 plus 17, 26 plus 08. Area 36-3: 57:10:31; 20 plus 17, 26 plus 19. Area 37-3: 58:49:21; 20 plus 21, 26 plus 16. Bank angles for all areas: roll left 85, roll right 95. Weather in all areas good. SEPManeuver required on all areas. Did you copy? purge. Encoder back ON. right now. it back after you pass. please? your Cryo switch OFF. KANO another foxtrot. For I am GO for today. another foxtrot ? J any problems ? Over. like to stop end take time. TANANARIVE had anything to eat yet today. CARNARVON here shortly. from you. solids. The Command Pilot ate Day 3, Meal B and everything but the solids. And the water gun - the water gun reads 1167. ready to copy. 99786; Address 26, 91139: Address 27, 91713; sunset, 46:12:35.
CC: Roger. CANTON cleaning? Over. during the stand up EVA? Over. inadvertent tension on the hoses reaching the win- dows, and the probability exists that you can't reach either of them. Over. m/AYMAS think we'11 make it all right. you get a chance? Over. for a Suit Integrity Mission Check. TEXAS 45:40:00?
CC: Roger. missed Suit Integrity Checks on both Pilot and Co--nd Pilot. co,_,-ndfor and A, Secondary B. Which do you want? CANARY ISLANDS Canary vehicles are GO and we are standing by.
C: Okay. KANO TANANARIVE
CC: Gemini XI, Houston. 1 minute and 30 seconds to LOS at Tananarive. CARNARVON installed between the hatch and we're Just waiting to pick up the stars. We haven't got them yet. on the first series Shaula. CANTON grease on my window. It's so bad that I can't even see the stars. All I can see are principal stars out of it. The grease is on the inside of the outer pane. be doing this well if we didn't have the Agena working for us. to get the star. right now, doing great on heading for Aries. We might get all three of them. HAWAII all three sets.
CC: Fine job' degrees, and keep it on the horizon. Is that okay with everybody from Thermo? back in, repress and open it up again on the next night pass. here. to get back in and out again. there is no cloud cover there, Gemini XI. tell how much fuel I'm using? I have the impres- sion I'm using a batch. CALIFORNIA Carnarvon. Over. fore, John. You're much better on that transmitter. pounds. Is that too much? guys up early tomorrow, you know. Gemini XI. OFF. We Just turned it back ON again. You can see that on the ground. TEXAS
C: Say again ?
CC: Roger. the good view, I'm getting burned up looking into the sun. That's a real nice guy. Florida. left and pitch down about 30. We've got sun on top of the hatch. Cape, too' north of there. for the next star? Over. Be a little rough in that hard suit. Government work. of propellant so far. Over. up? ASCENSION standing by to m_ke a night pass. to LOS. Over. TANANAR_"E Ower. that 's all. woke us both up. the Spacecraft. they all Just take off straLght up, right out of the Spacecraft, although we're rolled over on our side. Cernan effect. Over. at Tananarive. Over. and Dick's looking for stars outside the hatch in the daytime and he can't see any. I'm in here with nothing but m_ faceplate between me and the black sky and the shadow. I can't see any stars through the open hatch, either.
C: I got it. from the Orbital Track.
UNKNOWN: ? up. aren't you? stabilize for awhile. I can't help that. get all the pictures right here without even moving. All I've got to do is roll. 23, 34. CARNARVON have to go anywhere. We're just going to move just a little bit. I get it on the even one. We've got plenty of time. Are you getting tired? them all. done and get ... or 7 minutes was what I was shoo_ing for here. you are, because I - what? over the top or yaw around the horizon. I think it would be best to yaw over the top. Our line's right on the Orbital Track, isn't it? Off the Orbital Track?
C: Any time you want to turn the Agena off. hit the hand controller. something. a bit. Track. bit. It's a little bit to the right of the Orbital Track, isn't it? drifting right BEF. going in the right direction. yawing to the right of the Orbital Track, just a little bit on a road less 90. Now Orion should be perpendicular to us someplace. Maybe in our nose. That's what's bothering me. back up the way I wanted you to be. right. use INGRESS position when you're rea_. when out of there, do you? EGRESS? on my side, and can look at seal all you that around and then we'11 Just get in. Okay? easy get i_? right, Just Let the era out of the way and m_ hand over here. All right. I'm ready. here. Okay. Go ahead. go. clean the way around? Just let me get the hoses up out of the way. HAWAII (Laughter) Okay. dogs, but it looks to me like you're in all right. Turn your light on. Look around the hatch. Do you see anything? coming ON. middle of INGRESS when you called. We have closed the hatch and we have started to Repress, and we've got all of S-13 complete. We shot 1 psi. doing. Test for you guys during the Tether Exercise. They'11 pass that up over the States. Okay. _.8. Will the regulator top it off? will stand by in case you have anything else. looked at the Flight Plan here. cedures, then you have to purge.
P: Excellent, excellent '. CALIFORNIA Houston. Ingress. Roger. you're read2 to copy. Over. like to have you in the following configuration: have the L-Band in STANDBY 5 minutes prior to Undocking; have your computer in NAV; turn on the Agena. Transponder at 071; and then turn your Encoder OFF. After that, the ground will send SPIRAL SELECT and then you'11 be clear to undock. Now after undocking, you'11 want to hold a bore- sight at about 20 feet separation. After that, tur_ your Radar ON. We '11 look at the antenna you're locked-on for about 3 minutes and if you're on the Spiral, we '11 send DIPOLE S_._T. That will be from the ground. After that, you'11 be clear to turn your Encoder back ON again. After 1 more minute of boresight, we'd like you to send ACQ LIGHTS ON and OFF, 251 and 250. We'd also like you to report azt-,,th,elevation, locked-on range, Range- Rate, and NAP. You can leave your Radar ON for the stateside pass. 5 minutes prior to Undock, computer at NAV, and now the L-Band and Agena 071. Then turn our Enco- der OFF. The ground will send SPIRAL SELECT. Back out, after undocked 20 feet, turn Radar ON, and we'11 look at it for 3 minutes. The ground will send DIPOLE S_.W.CT, and we can turn our Encoder ON and you will look for 1 more minute. Then you want us to send ACQ LIGHTS ON and ACQ LIGHTS OFF, 251 and 250. After that, you want a report on the azt,,,th,elevation, range, Range-Rate, and MAP. for you. hours 53 mtuutes, right ascension. the right ascension. GUAYMAS you read? east; 0 hours 53 minutes, right ascension. was 135.5 east; 0 hours 53 mtuutes, right ascension. breaker? Over. Primary. Do you want to put the other A-Pump ON?
CC: Gemini XI, Houston. 1 minute and 20 seconds to LOS at Antigua. We'11 see how we progress. We'11 let you know over Carnarvon. We're pretty busy. ASCENSION pretty tied to it. We're pretty tied to it. 3 minutes and 19 seconds. Secondary Propulsion and 43 percent oxygen. TANANARIVE Roger. electronic timer. Could you give us a G_T time hack? It will be timed 49:11:OO. can turn the L-Band ON, and then when I turn the L-Band ON, everything seems to be okay. unless you turn L-Band ON and when you do, every- thing's okay. Is that correct? couldn't get the STP to turn OFF, so that's correct.
P: Go you do not receive a MAP light - the STP does, in fact, come ON? wouldn't go OFF. I had to turn the L-Band ON to get anything into the Agena at all. Stop switch and check the results? The On/Stop switch, that's fine, Al. OFF. L-Band OFF and everything works oka_ now. Could it be the temperature of the L-Band? degrees which is normal. CARNARVON we can do the Non Spun Up St&tionkeeping and this L-Band exercise at the same time. Exercise. the first time. turned off the Auto and Manual Retro circuit break- ers, Hctro Sequence Control 1 and 2. Attitude Indicator Retro circuit breaker is OPEN. That leaves me t_ree switches to go to jettison the tether. That's a configuration we'11 start in. that happen about the same time that you had that Electronic Timer circuit breaker OFF?
CC: Okay. stowage box - - ing that L-Band test at the same time that you Spun Up? we're going to - do you want to try and Just do it once we get undocked? Is that the idea?
CC: Okay. as you're moving out. from 750. a couple. HAWAII docked from the Agena ... 30 degrees below level vertical and we're pulling out the tether.
CC: Okay. tether - when we undocked and he's sort of stabil- izing back into his attitude again. ing tension very nicely. lock. I came on with the ra_-r ... the ground. for a minute. Let's hold it. want the End Spun Up because I just got to the end of the tether ... it all out. We only got about 50 feet out, and X Jerked it a little bit. We'11 try it again.
CC: Okay. of the Flight Plan and your experiments. LIGIfrSOFF. LI_ OFF. ACQ light. the end on the swivel yet. I hit it very lightly and it Just barely upset the Agena. So I'm not even going to be able to start the Non Spun Up. the right-hand hold handle. Non Spun Up business and you want to start the Spun Up Exercise, you can have at it. Spun Up. Hawaii. before the spin. CALIFORNIA out here. I'm going to try and spin it up. I can't get it off the handle. Texas. you stand by until over Texas where we can verify ACS OFF. GUAYMAS It's hol_tng up at two attach points. but apparently the Agena information isn't getting back to you. LIGHTS ON and OFF. going to be able to get it started spinning. I had the ACS OFF, I guess, and got some rates into h-rd it and I'm having a time Stationkeeping on it. I can't really psych out what's going on. Corem-nd401. at this time. That would be formation - get data at Texas. going by. The tether is whipping around us and I'm really having a hard time figuring out who's on first. ,11 It has a big bow in it, but of a sudden, the next thing you know, you're at the end of it. ON. You can send ACS OFF, Co,m_nd 400, when you're ready. Here we go. Now wait a minute. Come ahead. picture. Whoops ! starts it would do. It's like the Agena and I have a skip rope between us and it's rotating and making a big loop. And I have things pretty well under hand now and it looks like we're skipping rope with the thing out here. ACS is on. trying tether. got tension in it even when it's spinning. Did pou see what's happening? Did you see it? Now Lean against it so it can't. phenomenon going here. This will take somebody a little time to figure out. The tether is still doing this spin, like I said. That's the reason I can't get the end of it because it keeps a bow in it while it's spinning and it has tension in it. approximately 40 pounds of fuel. Could you give us a PQI reading if possible? up is backwards. never be able to get the spin in the tether out by applying _ension _o it. Using your o_ JudrJent, if you desire, _ou can initiate the tether - I mean ... to initiate _he spin from this point. position to do the Spin Out St&tionkeep_. It'a of it. out
CC: Good from this point.
CC: Okay. ASCENSION estim-te of your rotation rate. I 'm very low. Rotation - two-vehicle rotation is very low.
C: A piece of ground going by. The Orbital Plane is really fouled up. It's very hard to split this out. cates from Agena that it's about 40 degrees per minute.
CC: seconds to TANANARXVE is of a degree per second and the highest pitch and yaw rates that we're seeing right now, when they couple, are also about 2/3rd's of a degree per second. in both cases. ua in that offset from the CG, is a_vantageous to the Agena motion is staying out in frc_t of our windows All the time. Therefore, we have very seldom lost sight of it. that 75mm lens, you should hand-hold the camera. got good pictures and the 18 will give you a wider field of view. I've got one roll magazine at 1 frame per second now and I plan to run another one on the next day pass.
CC: Roger. on the whole thing, don't yom? bit. there. back again. them down the foot well. ought to be logged. I never thought we'd get all of those. Listen man, that Agena came through. We've got enough training under our belt to get that gosh _Awn stuff done in a hurry. We're really pressed for time. Just started to work on this last cartridge, for some strange reason. and it helped to take out the Gemini rates for pulse. Cll,m_m_. once in awhile. ROSE KNOT VICTOR present. OFF. Yes, we So I just went back to tell them the Gemini rates and that shut the whole system down and it's real stable again. I guess we are rotating slightly fa_ter. Can you read out on the Agena and tell us? stabilizes the whole system. Is that correct? whole system. wilder attitude excursions at the beginning than the Agena. And it was the same way this time. The Agena stayed relatively stable, but the Gemini seemed to wind up, for some reason. on the ground. They're in two axes on the Agena and we're having a little problem coming up with anything that' s different for you. seconds or so - on this lalt one, - so we should have added some more to it. I can't really tell myself. on these rates frcm the ground. We'11 look at the data post-pass and _ay_e get a better idea on it. heFe. ized and very stable on this nt-th pass. field. A very strong one. Yt hakes the caaera move back to the rear of the bus very rapidly. in here somewhere. _ou sure you don't have · food package over there that ia m_-e? ilipped out anTwhere .... and one life vest. Oh, here he ia. There he is. up. flight suit, so that when I get up to go, I get up to go without having to call a National Emergency to nine ground stations. It would be great. It's all dry air. damp the Gemini rates and you've got much higher rotation than we ... they are stable large excursions with the Earth and the whole combination settled down and we're quite stable again. As a matter of fact, we're eating. after tether jettison. Are you ready to copy?
P: We what? to execute the minute you jettison the tether. By that we mean send Command 401, which is ACS ON, to the Agena and then Just as soon as possible after that, close to a Stationkeeping position in line BHF. and when we got on the day side, pick the Agena up on the horizon. At the _me time, we were going to go ACS ON, fire forward until we get the slack off the tether, blow the bar, and drop the rate. out - the Radar Fire 2 and doing Agena SEP. Are you ready to copy? It's about five or six steps. Alinement, put your computer in NAV, turn on the radar and the transponder. Next, perform the Re- rendezvous Posigrade SEP burn on schedule. ning again? Alinement, put your computer to NAV and turn on the radar and transponder. Did you copy that much? SEP burn on schedule. to send SPIRAL S_F_T, which is C--_d 270. Then they want you to boresight on the Agena for 2 mtn- utes and send ACQ LIGHTS OFF, which is C_nd 250, and aN, which is Command 251. Did you copy that far? mode. When you're over the CSQ, they will ask you SET_&'T,which to send that DIPOLE is Co-_a_d 260. Then, they want you to boresight on the Agena for 1 m4nute and send ACQ LIGHTS OFF and ON again. then on your normal Flight Plan. discussing your procedure for separating from the Agena. We'd like to suggest that you not get too much slack in the tether prior to the time you blow the bar. Over. at least a little bit of slack and I'm gotng to jettison at the same time. you want to use on that? forward-firing thrusters. in component. bottom of the Agena all the ttme, er_enwhen it is rolling or anything. It is always rolling so that the tether's been through the CG and we've always seen the top of the Agena. COASTAL SENTRY QUEBEC ing by. Everything steadies out. We have a decided im- pression that the Non Spun Up Stationkeeping would probably work also, if you gave it enough time. Now we had just gotten to the point of no return when we couldn't get the tether off that one handle when we got all wrapped around the axle here That also would work, if you give it enough time'' and if you pick it up before you release the two vehicles. Standing by. sun again, right? right? there. in and fire towards him and track him and Jettison fire as the tether goes slack. place, aren't we? don't understand. also.
C: 55, all nines I think. ing it. little bit. again. be a little north of it. Boy, it's so dirty I can't see my hand in front of my face. right axis. to get here? when you do want it. next revolution in the same place. command. Now, stop right there. Just stop right there. close, Pete, you know that nylon's floating up there.
C: Yes. for awhile. Pitch it one time. See how there's nothing to that? for that to happen. you've way. that right now. attitude, that's all, I just don't want to get - you know - too many things working at once. Let's the get Spacecraft squared away because the ground always squares him away. it. front of up to SAFE. ON. That's ON. Pre-Staging Maneuver. 00051; Core 26, 90071; Core 27, zips; thrusters, forward; maneuver is Posigrade up. 25, 00051; Core Core 26, 90071; 27, zips; forward thrusters; Posigrade up. Over. foot tether flying all over the place, but we're riding the platform, Stationkeeping. And we left it with the engine forward and upside-down. We'11 square it away for you while we're sitting here alining the platform. there. right. It's just that we want, you know, to try it out with this Radar Test we're about to perform. whatever it is. Roger. good stuff? ation or about the jettison of the tether. went ACS ON, RATE COMMAND. Fired up and forward to stop the translation. I hit the Jettison switch and nothing happened. I hit it again and it blew. Ail switches were set. I don't know why it didn't fire the first time. And everything stopped real well. The Agena Control System stopped it right away and we got squared away without using too much fuel. And we're Stationkeeping BEF, Platform Alining right now. the way up trying to see one way and then all the way trying to see the other way. with it? alinement. they gave you at Tananarive in regard to this test? They implied Hawaii was going to tell you to send SPIRAL SELECT. It'11 be RKV instead. (Laughter) a MAP on anything. See if that stuff is in it. it like a Christmas present. wrapped itself around the other end and it's slowly wrapping itself around the big engine now. horizon sensor. is wrapped around the horizon sensor. flag by it there. See, it's above it? I'm Stationkeeping on the Agena. roll heads down. ponent s. Ail right? and 81 out of there? Oh, you can still do it. I'd better. it. form Alining. right. fire on the horizon. Fire up the components. That's the best I can do. Okay. alinement. the residuals out? keeping. Now set it all up again. Gemini. the ... is not in. I'11 put it in. to do another burn like this again? maneuver thrusters, didn't we? Yes, we used about half and half, didn't we? VW tank? darn Agena goes around the world and it'11 be right side up again. it though. That's too bad. do anything ... put it up here - we're way up in the sky. going to do this Rendezvous tonight. Better break out your Rendezvous Book again. Where did you put that thing? going to have radar? when that darn ... hit the fire out there. I saw a couple of little flames go sputter, sputter from it. when I hit it the second time, I got another squib to fire or something.
C: We went ... about going to Prelaunch here. going by. I've been photographing. Camera's start. coming into view but it's cocked at a _5-degree angle in the viewing monitor. You can readily see the cloud coverage. Fairly prominent thunderstorms to our left about 10 degrees. versus the water area. there. this _ay, doesn't it to you? that we're not pointing straight and looking ... seriously if you're going to see it through them. terrain photographs. Are we exposing any S-5's? that way. You might grab a - - across it? place. these two revolutions. right? the coastline on the scope. 55:O5:15. you probably managed it pretty good. which is kind of distorting, but you can very definitely see the cloud coverage over the ocean ends, the dark water and then the coastline very prominent.
C: I many under that you might pick up. A rather large city. It's real dim but - I can see it. up. below us. Itll take a shot at that. direction. Yes, take a few seconds of that. on your left. string of them. barely. center of the tube. They should be right in the center of the tube. center. That's the one I want. back to ON, right? inent. across it. looks like is all. thing else out here. my left. I'm going to track it a little bit and it's just off to my left. Got l, 2, 4 small land- marks just barely to the left. Coming into the center of the picutre right now. Do you see any- thing there, Pete? that this window is so dirty. Now you are going to cross a large town in just a second and it's goin_ to be in here. Now wait a minute. You're really messing us up. Now which way are you going? again. Taking a picture of the coastline right now. Just moving down the scope Just a little bit to our right, swing back over and then it's coastline right in the center of the picutre. Coastline now is covered with clouds. Very good contrast between the water and the land. Lng it now. And photographing the same. Okay. We've left the coastline and now are over water. Close your eyes a minute. Roger. It's 55:41:OO. We are crossing the oceam between Africa and India and we're picking up cloud streaks on the TV monitor very clearly. Very clear- ly, short bursts of the cloud streaks as they appear on the scope. down there. Man-o-man, there they are' There they go right there. They may be cloud streaks ... Boy! They're sure blooming across right in front of us. I would presume that those are still clouds. scanning until we c_ne up into the Calcutta area. We're on a tracking assignment. And then our night period will end. More clouds. Very prominent. though. This thing - it only works good when you're almost straight down. It really doesn't work worth a hoot. I wonder if that has anything to do with the fact that it may be looking through more airglow at an angle.
P: It might be. It might be. you get real good pictures inhere. something there. No, that's clouds - - moving. Either they're gross to begin with - you know - look like large cloud masses. Of course, these clouds aren't very large. Look like the scatter variety. Spacecraft stuff stowed for reentry. it. I'm showing about 12 percent down there .... power actually. No, I imagine we used a few pounds per pass on this thing. Probably have to use 10 pounds or so from that 30 tomorrow. We've already gotten 30. eec shoreline coming up here before too long. There's a pretty picture there I'd like to have taken a picture of. Clouds, clouds, clouds, clouds, clouds and more clouds. Doggone itl Oh, there's a bright one: That might be a fire down there. Do you see a fire straight down - it's gone beneath us now. coastline. real large city. There appears to be the coastline coming through the scope. miss it? coastline Just before daybreak? there. Took a picture of that. should - I might as well fly right over New York City, I'd never see it. you. like bright lights, and I can't tell whether they are little towns or they might just be great big there. fires down when we get there we ought to be crossing the coast- line. Oh, there was another meteor. window? there. mee? COASTAL SENTRY QUEBEC you threw away after the stand-up EVA. garbage. hand foot well. That's still in here. ready to copy. plus 31. Area 39-2: 61:20:02; 20 plus 10, 25 plus 38. Area 40-2: 62:52:55; 20 plus 05, 25 plus 32. Area 41-2: 64:28:41; 20 plus O1, 25 plus 51. Area 42-1: 65:56:16; 19 plus 44, 25 plus 29. Area 43-1: 67:43:16; 20 plus 08. 25 plus 54. Area 4A-l: 69:06:39; 20 plus 15, 26 plus 09. Bank angles for areas are roll left 85, roll right 95. Weather in all areas is good and no Sep Maneuver. east; 0 hours, _ minutes, right ascension. Over. purge, do we purge in the normal manner? CSQ, this is Gemini XI. is our total propellant aboard right now.
CC: XI, CSQ. fuel and 115 pounds of oxidizer. HAWAII D-15. We exposed appro_tely 6 minutes of film on that first night task. sight visually and - oh - zero, zero, zero here. bow. It will be right there again, too. grees pitched up right now. Where is our bow? down right now. Gosh darn, he's loud and clear now. Absolutely loud and clear out there. Looks like a gosh darn golf course. looking too iow. I better open and close on it and see - - got him on. They've got him turned - they must have him turned 90 degrees to us. Right? ping in out there. ing. The sun is shining on the tether. That's all I need right now. group ? it. the middle of the darn bunch. It's a terrible mistake. ri OW. be -- something. isn't working. There's something over it, like is there a door that's not open all the way? something. going by or clouds or something. time big flashes of lightning. There's a real storm down there right now. Gemini V. Every time we got any late-time revolution - - through there. there is an item here we didn't get to - and scan across North America. recorder. The clouds sure wash everything else out, don't they? the monitor. ROSE KNOT VICTOR We're standing by. behind the Agena we are? We were watching the day- time out there and we were curious as to how far we were seeing it. the lightning strikes. those things clearly. Right off the bat. You know this monitor has a spot right in the middle I can't get rid of. behind it. yet ? and that when you wake up tomorrow morning you should be about 13.9 miles behind them. It looks like we saw this the last time we were leaving the coast of South America, as a matter of fact. I am going to take a picture of this for the using viewers at home. seeing ... seen on the TV as our coastline, South America, Africa, clouds and fires and lightning. of your neck. What I need is a few hours of quiet sleep and I'11 be ready to go again. anyway. It looks like it m_ght be cloud streaks. the air, thruster firings, dust in your scope. it's because I can't see anything out of my dirty window. looking in that boob tube there. line of Saudi Arabia. for you. track. Search and track all the way through here, all the way to Africa. right now is, if you see a light down there that has to be a ship. though. HOUSTON half of D-15. for today. I should be in the cloud line pretty soon. Man, we've been humping as fast as they could hump. time is it, 10:257 of the ocean. coast of Africa. Viewing clouds on the monitor. and looked at it - if I look at it straight down it's showing about 10. forming? That's your roll hit. Watch. Put it in RATE. Put it in RATE. Now, hit the left yaw. See that. 8 thruster was performing? anything interesting. against. Nothing but _louds. here already. Now, why do you suppose the light suddenly started to work? have had a full tape of it.
P: Roger, John. Was that for the calculated Rendezvous or the Coelliptic? scaled down. Over. pellant cut-off is 2.5 percent. Over. target's about 22-23 miles from you. Over. elevation and time to the target, Just before sunset there, so that we can see how nominal your Intercept Maneuver burn was. Over. over Carnarvon. Over. Over. 35 minutes, right ascension. Over. about this error intercept? Over. understand going to give us time to start our event timer up from zero. Is that correct? a scale-down, 130-degree transfer and so if you start your event timer and enter it with the 'nominal times, you'11 do your Midcourse - your back-up, Midcourse calculations occur at the nominal times. Over. zero? S-30 while TPI is going on. Over. to get S-30 and the only Midcourse you'11 have a chance for is when you'11 break out into the sun- shine there toward the end. It will be the fourth Midcourse of the back-up solution. Over. Roger. turn the Encoder ON, too? Over. firing thrusters, or what? that okay? CANARY ISLANDS ward; Spacecraft TPI at 66:06:49; Midcourse Cor- rection is divided by 3. up at zero. counting up. your Cryo switch OFF. the maneuvers? Did you copy? Correction, we divide that by 3, too, beside our answer. them at. and divide your answer by 3. really on the nominal. Will my closing rate damp be 1/3 of what it is on these charts? sure the answer to that one. nominally on the regular one - can stuff. Right? KANO by 3, it's just the - it's just the Delta-V that you calculate. Over. were completely nominal, what would our closing rate be there? R-dot of a O1 divided by 3. out the window without a radar. I don't want to run into him. so. per second or 25 miles behind. 24.9. Over. night. What happened? in plane with him? probably in a higher orbit than he is. How's that for a barnyard? you're almost level with him. a little longer and do some more work. CARNARVON S-d Temp switch OFF. S-4 Temp switch OFF. zero. see that he's got 3 degrees pitch-up on us right now. the Agena at the next sunrise will be 59 degrees. him bring up Main Battery Number 3.
C: Carnarvon, Gemini XI. they want us to do about this OX reserve thing back here. Just wait for our own reserve to need it? get to the reserve tank. TEXAS should have a pitch angle of about 60 degrees. Over. Everything's going real well. We're just finish- ing up S-30. anything, indicate you'11 be out in front of him, just where you want to be. Over. and try to give you an estimate of what your fourth Midcourse should be - what we think it should be. Over. to burn yours? sure. Battery to OFF. Over. HOUSTON select AUTO on your H2 Heater? Over. yet ? Over. greasy that I can't see them through the reticle, so I have to use a reticle with my left eye and track them with my right eye. grease or no grease. correction for this thing. here. Over. up/down. Over. Is that correct? Over. CANARY ISLANDS ing by. correction. We added 6 feet forward. moving. It's standing straight up - like it's in the gravity grade. the Agena recorder on for you? 15 feet a second. give you now. sliding in there very pretty now. XI. thing's looking real good and we copy your PQI as 5 percent remaining. about 50 feet out. great flyby. KANO flyby' this again when we come by? package at 66:_3. Retrograde burn any time before Carnarvon, which we 're showing coming up at 67:lO about. COMMAND. D-Adapter to COMMAND? Over. any time after you eat today. Over. of the sequences of S-30 performed on the previous night, at your discretion, to determine the effect, if any, of close-proximity, thruster firings on the optical surface of D-15 equipment. side here. the time for that would be Sequence O1 at 66:55 and then the rest of it at 67 hours and 25 mtnutes, which is about sunset. any time before Carnarvon. Is that right? you want that? verified it. take a last look at the D-15 and then go BEF for final alinement. asked us to look at it. And we were Stationkeeping on the Agena. 4 and 5 percent. configuration as published for Reentry, except the extra items we've Jettisoned. I thought we were on our next to last pass. in PRELAUNCH. night horizon out here very shortly. CANTON opportunity Over. is the Agena. Over. we could do a buster. buster but not ... of and below the Agena. Over. lights on? GUAYMAS neurospora blood package at 67 hours and 53 minutes. correct? computations. Over. all stowed; we're ready to come home one revolution early. drinking. 1574. TEXAS us? Over. you. We slept about _ hours last night, very well. up 30 degrees. decided impression on the Rendezvousthat I wasn't getting all the thrust that I should get out of my down-firing thruster. Over. one I complained about before, or the down-firing Jet. I Just don't think I was getting all out of it that I should have been getting. to about 4.95 below the regulation pressure we've been seeing on it. Over. we'11 watch it. to the target when you started braking? Over. 100, 105, llO degrees. of times. inertial almost all the way in, John. Just changed - had to change the needles once because Dick dumped the computer on me, but otherwise, I wouldn't have had to do that. BERMUDA Bermuda.
C: Roger, Houston. CANARY ISLANDS a PI_ Update for you when you're ready to copy. 36. Area 46-4: 73:33:03; 20 plus 09, 26 plus 02. Area 47-4: 75:08:27; 20 plus 15, 26 plus 11. Area _8-d: 76:44:08; 20 plus 22, 26 plus 29. Bank angles all areas: roll left 85, roll right 95. Weather good in all areas. No SEP Maneuver required. Did you copy? copy? see you next time around. KANO CARNARVON at Retro will be dark and light at 40OK. Begin blackout, 22 plus 40; end blackout, 27 plus 56. REP of drogue, 29 plus 41; REP of main, 31 plus 15. Your Retro pitch angle is m_nus 20 degrees. anything, give me a shout. Carnarvon, for my event timer count-down? CANTON Number 6 - that's your left pitch-up thruster - is a little soft. Did you notice anything? Over. specifically noticed it. at Canton. Say again. Over. HAWAII CALIFORNIA 115 Pre-Retro Check List. Over. plus 12: RET RB, 26 plus 39. Bank left 50; bank right 60. Your begin blackout, end blackout, drogue and main times do not change from Carnarvon. Normal IVI's 225 aft, 115 down. Say again, 305 aft. Over. up. At 55 degrees, 72 up. At 90 degrees, 70 down. Your 4OOK pitch angle did not change and your pitch angle at Retrofire, minus 20 degrees. fire Nunki in Sagittarius will be 20 degrees above the Retrofire point - above the horizon. Over. 65951. That was Address 03. Over. 40331; 09, 15548; 10, 022+16;1i, 29000. mi]es. Wind is 140 at 15 knots; wave height, 2 to 4 feet; the altimeter setting, 3000. The recovery call signs - the ship is the Guam and there are two aircraft in the area - Air Boss - call sign, Air Boss. Over. HOUSTON can you turn your Main Batteries ON, and check them, and give us a voltage readout? Over. Agena flying to my left and down, and apparently, closer. you can check your MDIU quantities and then the TR will come up to you. timer at Carnarvcn is 18 minutes. Over. out. too. other friend you've got up there? was much bigger than the rest of them. ...? Sir? Retro. Over. ON? Over. CANARY ISLANDS until the next mission. We show you GO on the ground and wish you luck. "Hi" to everybody. KANO
C: Roger. Gemini XI. at Kano. TANANARIVE like your peanut cubes. Over. they were pretty good. were right next door. time, hasn't it? CARNARVON
CC: Gemini XI, Carnarvon. timer? and our shore sure looks great from 750 miles. congratulations and they want to know when you're coming back. CANTON 118 HAWAII Retro Check List. complete. Gemini XI. Your cabin pressure is good ... hold- ing and suit pressure's source pressure looks real good. We'11 see you back home. CALIFORNIA 63 nautical miles up. Over. GUAYMAS track and you're over there now. are good. Your RET to drogue is 29 plus 31; RET to mai_ is 30 plus 55. TEXAS bank left _, bank right 54. Over. right 54. Our 4OOK time was 20 plus 14. HOUSTON we're in AUTO. out. We show over a hundred now. you? Over. there. 2, 1. Over. GUAM CONTROL you in sight on my port side. Over.
UNKNOWN: that. we're 1 minute to LOS. Sequence-Second-fy 02, CLOSED.
C: Secon_ry 02 CLOSED. ... j, off, dow cower. C right? dirt on the outside. cover. There might be some on the others. so I can get it before it's dark. getting - - a good one. 23.8. '
C: perpendicular? here. 23.8, 24 volts. 27 will be 9 - - firing of the thrusters. 8-1/2 lanyard. forward and 9 left - on the M's. Flight ? little bit. you're reading me. Sounds
C: Let's and can there. we're 1 minute to LOS.
C: Yes. see ... out. see if it's okay. that holds everything - the line Just broke. behind? C hopeful - - (Laughter) everyone up here. SO. INTERCOM. right about now, 00:34:41 - 51. switched to ADAPTER. ward. TANANARIVE _:hT'ough c. Tananarive. Go REENTRY Antenna. How do you read? now, Houston. How us? thought but We tried to - we you were broadcasting, we couldn't hear a thing. you ready to copy your NCi? right now. We first heard your transmission on an ADAPTER Antenna, however. Want us to stay on REENTRY? with your radio. plus 28; yaw O, pitch O; Address 25, 00666; Address 26, Address 27, all zeres; thrusters aft; Maneuver, Posigrade. 40; Delta-V, 66.6 feet per second; duration, 1 plus 28 seconds; yaw O, pitch O, Address 25, 00666, ·..; Posigrade. you a copy, but I think you have it right· and give me a call, please. you read? blem was your low pass at Ascension. You can remain on ADAPTER Antenna and bow's everything going? dary 02, right one, went up to 5600 then dropped to 5000. It's now at 5000. high-g. reading during high-g flight. It is now at 5000. We have the left Second-wy 02 CLOSED and the right Secondary 02 is OPEN per Flight Plan. to Carnarvon. (Singing - "Back in the Saddle Again") ... burn? 8.5 feet per second; Address 25 and 26 are O; Address 27, 90085. 14 plus - - was that 00084? 1 plus 14 plus 22; Address 27 is 90085. Over. by. burn. CONTINUOUS on the Recorder? on to CONTINUOUS until the Launch phase.
P: Everything is up-to-date in Kansas City. which is great because it may mean that we'11 have a smaller ... pretty soon. like is that you go to darkness right away. we going to pay for this deal when it ... I'd better get m_ sunglasses on. Anything else we have to do before this burn? soever, do you? Okay. We're going to be kind of rushed after this burn because after the ll4 we do this other plan, and we've got to get the word over Carnarvon. blew? after that. not yet. % 66.8. CARNARVON 1W3LSE_ it all.
C: Carnarvon, Gemini Burn is complete and the resid,,-lsare GO. C,-mtuiXII. Hour tonight. here on the ground. You're GO for 15-1 Alpha. I '11 give you a Mark on GET at 54 minutes. Roger. information on our Out-of-Plane burn? t Plane burn? solution for the Plane-Chan_e. 22-1/2 with the right thruster. a couple of things down here. - standing by. all the residuals. HAWAII and the residuals are nulled. erometer Bias Check at this time then. of rotating back to 0 00. We're going to have to stop our rotation here shortly. let me know, and we'11 start the Accelerometer Bias Check at that time. ometer Bias Check. what. CALIFORNIA Rressure? We're standing by. We'11 pass you the maneuvers when we get them. ... and up. solid lock-on now - first range we're able to read out as to the aceelerometer bias - with 235.52 miles. no update. Everything looks good. 'L HOUSTON and by for our CSI and our PDH Update. right with you. burn time, Delta-T, OO plus 10; yaw 10 right, pitch 27 up; Address 25, 00067; Address 26, 90035; Address 27, 90011; thrusters aft; Posigrade Up south. OO plus 10; yaw 10 right, pitch 27 up; 25 is 00067; 26 is 90035; 27, 90011; aft. and south. Delta-T, O1 plus 06; yaw 1 right, pitch 4 up; Address 25, 00498; Address 26, 90035; Address 27, 90007; thrusters aft; maneuver is Posigrade Up south. 49.9; duration, O1 plus 06; yaw 1 right, pitch 4 up; 25 is 00498; 26 is 90035; 27 is 90007; thrusters aft, Up Posigrade. eggs. If you can get to the thermo cover without interfering, _ould you put it on, please?
C: Roger. us a report on your left and right windows, please? on your windows when you have a chance, please? right now, though; they're pretty good. J LOS. Your Delta-H looks like lO miles.
CC: Roger. Standing by. ASCENSION Houston stanS_ug Ascension. circuit breaker and see if it's in the ON position please? a little. TANANARIVE Tananarive. is engaged. by. through the sextant in excess of 85 miles. CARNARVON _-_t's 25, 00495; 26, 90065; 27, 90001. Roger. Over. about 64 miles. The Ra&A_ Power circuit breaker is on, and we don't seem to be able to get anything through the computer. dezvous. we have a lock-on. getting no indication that he's got it. mode.
CC: 1 minute until LOS. How are you doing? tion on the analog. Still is going back and forth, but we haven't had any lock-on. HAWAII T/M you. on the Agena. time to your commands to see if you have comm_nd capability? DIM and BRIGHT; that's Co-_-nds 211 and 201. When- ever you're ready, go. working fine here on the ground. selected? help out too much. we're on SPIRAL, it looks like. Stand whether they want to stay on SPIRAL or DIPOLE. tion, right? got the latest one. It is 34.58 miles. is about 16 degrees. We 'ye got visual on him now, both with the sextant and in optical sight. be a little bit later than nominal TPI.
CC: Okay. when you are ready to copy. 22.8 Forward; Delta-T, OlO; Delta-V, 3.2 Up: Delta-T, 0.08; Delta-V, 2.7 Right. Okay. Your Range will be 24.7 miles; Range-Rate 95 feet per second at Point Charlie. 22.8 Forward; 3.2 Up; 2.7 Right. Range at Point C is 24.7; 95 feet per second. ellipticity.
C: Go ahead. cal miles, and that will be almost at TPI or a time of 03:04:27. be at TPI. ground is showing that the computer is accepting the radar data. How does it look to you now? a study? Perhaps we ought to go in the Rendezvous mode. it. CALIFORNIA going to watch your ra_r to see how well it is operating and see if it will be of any help to you during your Braking Maneuvers. TEXAS that was burned at - - thought you said forget it. 22 forward. ward. Did you burn the 3 up or not? nothing up at 03:05:48. Is that correct?
CC: Okay. Range-Rate whatsoever. updating correctly, all within 8 seconds. Every once in awhile into 40 seconds, and I don't know what you're reading in the cockpit, but it doesn't look too goad on the ground. Analog at all. We want to update the Agena.
C: Roger. repeat? encoder back on and you are transmitting LU{F on INTERCOM there. through clear enough. Range-Rate is terrible. Let's go back, okay? on little more solid the radar. be pretty good. Range-Rate is terrible. Range Range-Rate we get good Range-Rate now - between 40 and 50. Is that correct? want them. ATTITUDE. Okay. Stand by. light. ASCENSION Ascension. ? And the Range-Rate is feet per second. some range. an unreadable. about 17 feet per second, closing well under control. your closing rate. are well under control. List? Range-Rate?
C: 20 feet per second? ... a little bit. 1/2 fortunately. Shows us comtng up on 2,000 feet here. and which is not bad. Okay. I believe it's going to bring a little bit more here. have analog. stars out there. Okay. How about a Dock light, want that? Still closing. TANANARIVE
CC: Gemini XII, G_mtni XII. Houston stana_ug by through Tananarive. Still closing. through Tananarive. Is that correct? PUSH TO TALK, please? here. FJSH please? wasn't it? pleas e ?
C: Yes. it.
UNKNOWN: coming up.
C: Just a little bit. camera going. please?
P: Looks beautiful ' where we are here. anymore, do we ? You're GO for docking. see that? picture of that - -
C: No. POWER and a DOCK. picture of the engine? we'11 have them in. find out where we are and let me know. didn't say anything about. it, I didn't want to lose it. DOCK, right? (Laughter) to Dock. around here a little bit. Now about the engine station? Hey, get up a camera and take some pic- tures of that thing. Take a little water - - don't site there, they? less. Buzz. that? - that's a beautiful shot of Lt. will go right in it. about we get a GO for docking. MAIN G_EEN on. SECONDARY - ell right, SECONDARY LOW is on; ATTITUDE is on; DOCK is on; and POWER is on. What are we going over? of this work station. sunset want to be - we'11 probably want to be docked by then.
P: Not until 04:47. Stills are the thing. These movies don't come out at all. Just keep taking shots. shot right there, 25 feet. That's f:11, 1/250th. COASTAL SENTRY QUEBEC here. Everything 's okay. want the tape dump. T/M CO_M/_D. your Adapter C-Band to T/M O41, okay ? RECORD DATA. want out of film here. 35""" camera. W_ don't you get the Docking with the 18mm? an sure is reading 550. psi. I'11 pump it up a little. got everything on Dock checked off. want to foul it up. yOU. to we may want Undock here before too long. Standing by to stop the fuel cell purge. it, there goes the oxygen. down. Right ? thing. Flight Plan. bit here. you ? we're Just about right on the PQR area. Okay. I'11 go right over here and get the stuff. z 361. HORIZON SCANNERS. GEO RATE ON. 351. 19. HAWAII Have you completed gyrocompassing? now BEF for the Agena 0 00. CSQ before you completed your purge. How did the rest of the purge go? is still on. and then we'11 turn it off right after that. Would you say again?