Gemini 3 transcript starting at 00 07 23 on Spacelog

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00 07 23
Gordon Cooper (CapCom): Roger. We have an 87 by 125 orbit, Molly Brown.
00 07 40
Gordon Cooper (CapCom): Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM.
00 07 43
Gordon Cooper (CapCom): Roger. You have an 87 by 125 orbit. I'll get you One-Alpha shortly.
00 07 45
Gus Grissom: Roger.
00 07 54
Gordon Cooper (CapCom): Roger. new One-Alpha time is elapsed time of 18:12. 18 minutes, 12 seconds.
00 08 05
Gus Grissom: Roger. 18:12.
00 08 06
Gordon Cooper (CapCom): Roger. Write fast, John.
00 08 39
Gus Grissom: That horizon is right where they said it would be.
00 08 43
John Young: Yes.
00 08 46
Gus Grissom: Let's see, have we got everything on this checklist, John? Let's see—retrorockets safe. Yes.
00 08 52
John Young: Yes.
00 08 54
Gus Grissom: OAMS power— ATTITUDE.
00 08 56
John Young: Maneuver controller—stowed. Sequence lights—test.
00 09 03
Gus Grissom: Arm restraints, face plates—open.
00 09 05
John Young: Secondary O₂ bottle is closed. I've got mine. Waste valve to NORMAL.
00 09 22
Gordon Cooper (CapCom): Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM.
00 09 25
Gus Grissom: GO, Cape CAP COM.
00 09 27
Gordon Cooper (CapCom): Look better there than on a ballistic flight?
00 09 30
Gus Grissom: Say again.
00 09 31
Gordon Cooper (CapCom): Does it look better from there than on a ballistic flight?
00 09 37
Gus Grissom: I can't read you, Gordo.
00 09 38
Gordon Cooper (CapCom): Roger. How-do-it-look?
00 09 41
Gus Grissom: It look great!
00 09 43
Gordon Cooper (CapCom): Rog.
00 09 44
John Young: Computer—PRELAUNCH. High frequency is off. Antenna selector to ADAPTER.
00 09 53
John Young: Cape CAP COM, how do you read on adapter antenna? Over.
00 10 06
John Young: Cape CAP COM, Molly Brown. Over.
00 10 09
Gus Grissom: Maybe we lost 'em.
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00 10 10
John Young: Yes.
00 10 14
Gus Grissom: Man, it's hard to watch that gyro.
00 10 15
John Young: Yes.
00 10 23
Gus Grissom: Guess you've got to stow the drogue pins, huh?
00 10 24
John Young: Yes. Stow those drogue pins.
00 10 34
Gordon Cooper (CapCom): Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM.
00 10 36
Gus Grissom: Cape CAP COM, Molly Brown. How do you read?
00 10 45
Gus Grissom: Cape CAP COM, Molly Brown. How do you read?
00 10 50
Gus Grissom: Better go to reentry antenna.
00 10 51
John Young: Okay.
00 10 55
Gus Grissom: Cape CAP COM, how do you read Molly Brown?
00 10 59
Gus Grissom: I think we've lost them now. let's leave it on adapter antenna and we'll try at Canaries.
00 11 04
John Young: Okay.
00 11 08
Gus Grissom: Let's get lined up here.
00 11 19
John Young: I'll put the mains to OFF and see what we've got. Look here, we've still got a … I want to put these off. I'll put them off one at a time, or we may drop voltage.
00 11 41
Gus Grissom: What's our time coming in to the Canaries?
00 11 48
John Young: Time is 14 something. Just a second. Okay, Canary is 14:50 acquisition. LOS 21:42.
00 12 10
Gus Grissom: Okay.
00 12 18
Gus Grissom: I'd say I was alined pretty good, wouldn't you?
00 12 20
John Young: Yes.
00 12 42
John Young: Great!
00 13 24
John Young: Shoot, Gus, I can't get my blood pressure bulb in. I really can't.
00 13 33
Gus Grissom: It wants to keep yawing us all the time.
00 13 34
John Young: Huh?
00 13 36
Gus Grissom: It wants to keep yawing us all the time.
00 13 37
John Young: Yes.
00 14 07
Gus Grissom: We must have a leak.
00 14 08
John Young: What kind of leak?
00 14 19
John Young: Okay.
00 14 37
Gus Grissom: You want the plotboard?
00 14 40
John Young: Yes.
00 14 45
Gus Grissom: If I can get it out.
00 14 49
John Young: The intercom is noisy, isn't it?
00 14 54
Gus Grissom: I can't get the plotboard out of there.
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00 15 01
Gus Grissom: I can't get it out, John.
00 15 03
John Young: Can't get the plotboard out?
00 15 07
Gus Grissom: I'll darn sure never get it in. Oh yes, there it comes.
00 15 16
Canary CapCom: Molly Brown, Canary CAP COM. How do you read?
00 15 19
Gus Grissom: Canary CAP COM, this is Molly Brown. how do you read?
00 15 22
Canary CapCom: Roger. Read you loud and clear, Molly Brown.
00 15 27
Gus Grissom: I read you the same.
00 15 28
Canary CapCom: We have your T/M solid and all systems look good on the ground.
00 15 31
Gus Grissom: Okay, we look pretty good up here.
00 15 32
Canary CapCom: I have your 2-1 time if you are ready to copy. Do you copy, Molly Brown?
00 15 38
John Young: Okay.
00 15 40
Gus Grissom: Okay. Ready with 2-1.
00 15 41
Canary CapCom: Roger. ΔV139. GMTRC 15 55 47. GETRC 01 31 47. Roll left 55°. GMTRB 16 05 31. Roll right 65. Did you copy?
00 16 13
Gus Grissom: Did you get 'em?
00 16 14
John Young: Yes.
00 16 15
Gus Grissom: There goes a planet up there.
00 16 20
Gus Grissom: Did you get 'em?
00 16 21
John Young: Roger.
00 16 25
Canary CapCom: Molly Brown, Canary CAP COM.
00 16 28
Gus Grissom: We're getting ready to read them back to you.
00 16 29
Canary CapCom: Roger.
00 16 30
John Young: Roger. ΔV of 139. GMT of 16-belay that—15 55 47.
00 16 39
Canary CapCom: Molly Brown, Canary CAP COM. Request you place your radiator switch to the FLOW position.
00 16 45
John Young: Roger. Radiator is in FLOW position. Has been the whole pass.
00 16 55
John Young: It's cooling us right down too. It's working.
00 17 00
John Young: Reading back a GMT of 2-1—15 55 47 GMTRC. GMTRB is 16 05 31. Bank angle 55° left and right 65°.
00 17 30
Canary CapCom: Molly Brown, Canary CAP COM. We are standing by for your UHF Com Check. Do you copy?
00 17 35
John Young: Roger. We are on UHF #2. Have been the whole pass. Over.
00 17 49
Canary CapCom: Molly Brown, Canary CAP COM.
00 17 51
Gus Grissom: Go ahead.
John Young: I don't think they read me.
00 17 52
Canary CapCom: Roger. We are standing by for your UHF Com Check, and would you place your radiator switch to your FLOW position?
00 17 59
Gus Grissom: Roger. John has been answering all of those. He's just in RECORD.
00 18 03
John Young: Roger. The radiator has been in FLOW the whole pass. The UHF has been on No. 2 the whole pass. over.
00 18 14
Canary CapCom: Roger. Copy you loud and clear, Molly Brown. We are standing by for your blood pressure.
00 18 20
John Young: Roger. Blood pressure is coming down.
00 18 32
Canary CapCom: Molly Brown, Canary CAP COM. Be advised, on your 15 second burn you achieved a 12.6 ft/sec. Did you copy?
00 18 41
Gus Grissom: Key moment Problem with one of the OAMS thrusters, possibly similar to problems experienced later on Gemini VIII: Roger. Understand. I seem to have a leak. There must be a leak in one of the thrusters, because I get a continuous yaw left.

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