CC: Roger. either. for you this pass. We'11 be standing by. TEXAS a cancellation on your flight plan D-4/D-7. are deleted because of weather. Hawaii weather? Do you think we can attempt a laser experiment at that time? enough to the Islands to make a good evaluation this time. and still keep it in the flight plan. now. CONFIDENTIAL 377 understand percent. pretty close down here, Frank, and we've got a pretty good handle on it. Scheduling experiments to cope with it. his 12-year-old daughter that we mentioned last night will be played remote over Tananarive on UHF on Rev 79. That's not this time up Tananarive, but and next time. We'11 give you a call then play it for him. figure that that Column 6, that big fat zero, is another space first. anything else at this time. Probably won't be talking to you again until Tananarive in a couple of hours. happy. It's the first time he's ever talked to a spacecraft in flight. voice at breakfast time. more and more. going to keep you going for a while. fine. The spacecraft is neat and clean and it's performing perfectly. by the way, after talking last night to Sue and Marilyn, they both said if I do have a chance to tell you, they're fine and they just want to say "hello". really thinking about down here, we'11 have a total lifetime for you in about a revolution or two, to give you an idea how long you could really be up there if you wanted to. ROSE KNOT VICTOR ledge. All systems are GO. We are standing by. Borm-n 123: 18. Dumping now. CONFIDENTIAL 379 dump, than the ... to the top of the visible airglow is 2.5 degrees. be okay. One big problem with this section of the spacecraft is that unless you measure things verti- cally like stars to horizon the window - head arrangement and the ... Just are not compatible with each other. Go harder ... other than a vertical position. It's hard to shoot shots other than in a vertical position. COASTAL SENTRY QUEBEC have nothing for you this pass. You need not acknowledge this transmission. HAWAII by for your blood pressure. blood pressure, please? your exercise. food, water and sleep report. status report. in-flight maintenance. standing by. ROSE KNOW VICTOR propellant quantity on the ECS 02 . It's gone down about 3 percent here in the last 2 hours ... CONFIDENTIAL 381 the gage is probably reading higher than it should. We'11 brief you in detail over the CSQ. 129:57:45; 21 plus 52. Area 83-Bravo: 131:51:30; 21 plus 35. Area 84-Bravo: 132:30:32; 21 plus 39. Area 85-2: 134:06:54; 21 plus 39. Area 86-2: 135:43:22; 21 plus 44. Area 87-2 Charlie: 137:17:53; 21 plus 49. Area 88-2 Charlie: 138:44:28; 21 plus 45. The weather in Area 85-2 is marginal. All other weather is good. CSQ. revolution, Gemini VII. salad. Serial number SC-495. The food is so small that it takes all my force Just to squeeze a little bit of chicken salad out. It's ridiculous. TANANARIVE old daughter. Request was made in the hopes that it might stimulate her Daddy to have him come home in a hurry, and here it comes in about 10 or 12 seconds. Any comment? Tell Barbara I saw Santa Claus before I came down there. "Bah-Humbug" that Marilyn heard the other day. :lot have originated that from that "Bah-Humbug" she heard the other day. Santa Claus up here, too. now, and she wanted me to pass on that household crew still remains at about 3.9. CONFIDENTIAL 383 a tropical storm west of Burma in the Bay of Bengal. any We don't advocate fuel but we Just want to let you know that it's there and if you do have a chance to take a look at it_ fine; if not, okay. up there for 3 1/2 or 4 months if you really want to. pretty rapidly from clear to overcast, back to clear and overcast. We're watching it pretty closely and if there is any question about it we'11 probably scrub the _SC-4. prior to Hawaii. COASTAL SENTRY QUEBEC port. to date ... 16mm color film, four exposures of dim light/night film, seven films of color-shifted IR terrain film, high-contrast black and white film - two frames. We've also used six tape recordings, and today we completed everything in the flight plan except for those things, of course, which were deleted. figuration for the sleep period. ECS 02 is okay. No heat required. Fuel Cell 02, AUTO. Fuel Cell }{2' want you to pump the on-board up to 490 ... that should be good for 16 hours. 02 in AUTO, and we'11 pump up the FC H2 to 490 and that should be good. psi .... rate 4 psi per hour. experiment over Hawaii. you're ready to copy. CONFIDENTIAL 385 remaining fuel is 59 pounds. This represents 33 percent actual remaining propellant used - - lent which is 29 percent indicated on-board. That's the number you're asking for? the preflight curve. that. of memory and verified to be correct. that regulation is very negligible ... beginning of the mission. to vent until up to 300 hours elapse time, if any. Fuel cell 02 is not expected to vent at any time during the mission. ECS 02 tank is predicted to vent sometime - - Temperature is below norma_ on 02 by 3.5 percent and below normal on H2 by 6.5 percent. Fuel cell appears to be more efficient than expected. Thank you and thank everybody for it. usage is 6 pounds below the expected usage. We expect to be 161 by 162 by the GT-VI flight. COASTAL SENTRY QUEBEC there! Really! CONFIDENTIAL 387 lift-off. .. we'11 supply the exact data ... a lot later. GO at the Cape. The pass GET - R3 should be 131:44:37, with an area 21 plus 35 · Do you copy? HAWAII Hawaii. We should be picking it up pretty soon. good-size hole as you come up over the top of us, and if you can hold your attitude fairly well, you may get a good look. command. Just leave it in the position it's in. light. behind you. question about where your radar was. CONFIDENTIAL 389 be standing by.