Spacelog Gemini 3

Molly Brown, Molly Brown, RKV.

RKV, this is Molly Brown.

Roger. Read you loud and clear. I'm going to update your T_R and transmit a maneuver load to you.

Roger.

I've got a reject on my T_R. What is your status, Molly Brown?

Do you want me to tell them about the oxygen pressure being off-scale?

Our status is GO. We did bring the ECS O₂ back down on the scale with O₂ High Rate, and since that time it has returned to off-scale.

Roger, and I have transmitted a T_R and Gemini load for your maneuver over Corpus. Confirm you were in CATCH-UP. Over.

Negative. We're in CATCH-UP, now.

Roger. I'll retransmit the load.

Roger. You have a load in the CATCH-UP for your maneuver.

Got to be in CATCH-UP.

Okay. There you go.

Roger. Go.

You are GO for the next orbit.

Roger. Thank you.

Are you ready to copy your maneuver times?

Stand by.

Roger.

You ready?

Yes.

Okay. We're ready to copy.

Roger. Your GMTB…correction, 15 57 00. Your ground elapsed time to burn, 01 33 00. Your ΔV of the burn, 048. Your length of burn, 01:14.

Roger. We copied 15:57, 01:33, 48ft/sec, at a minute and 14 seconds.

74 seconds.

Well, 1 minute 14. You want to read it back to them?

Did you get him the other one?

Neg. Wait until I'll get them.

Roger. Stand by for a GET time hack.

On my mark, it'll be 85 minutes and 45 seconds. Stand by.

MARK! You copied?

Roger. We copied.

Roger. Your clocks looked good on the ground.

Will you give me a readout of core 25, 26, and 27? Over.

26 and 27 are all zeros.

I wonder if he got it?

I don't know.

Molly Brown, RKV CAP COM.

Go ahead. Over.

Go ahead RKV.

Will you give me a readout of your computer core — 25, 26, and 27, please?

Roger. It was: 25 was minus 0480. 26 and 27 were all zeros. Over.

That is affirmative. I concur.

Molly Brown, can you give me a readout of your OAMS helium source pressure, temperature, and your propellant quantity gage.

The propellant quantity gage is 83 percent. Stand by. John will give you the other.

Roger. Source pressure is 2450. Source temperature is 85°, and fuel and oxidizer regulated at 295 with 68°.

Roger. 295 at 68. Say again your propellant quantity, Command Pilot.

Propellant quantity is 84 percent.

Roger. I copy.

Roger.

Molly Brown, RKV. I'm getting an indication of OAMS thrust forward-firing. I have negative OAMS yaw firing on the ground.

We're not doing any firing. We're not even in MANEUVER and ATTITUDE and we haven't touched the handle.

Roger.

Molly Brown, stand by for Guaymas.

Roger.

Outstanding! I see the whole of Mexico.

I wonder what area of Mexico it is?

Molly Brown, Guaymas CAP COM.

Guaymas, Molly Brown.

Guaymas standing by.

Roger.

It's pretty well clobbered, isn't it?

Yes.

We're going to have a hard time with that tracking task.

Can you see anything up north there?

I never got a chance to look for the Salton Sea, but I think we can see up that way.

Nothing but high cirrus.

Oh, man! Oh, man, you can see all the way across Mexico!

You must have it clear down there, huh?

Yes, it's clear down south, here.

Molly Brown, Guaymas handing over to Texas.

Roger.

It came out 50 feet on my IVI's. You'll give me a mark now on my burn. Right?

Roger.

Okay. It will be about two minutes before we start it. So you punch off your stopwatch and tell me — give me a mark to stop it—just in case it doesn't go to zero.

Okay.

Molly Brown, Texas CAP COM.

Read you loud and clear, Texas.

Roger. Texas standing by for your maneuver.

Roger.

You got that? The IVI's came out 50 ft/sec aft. Right?

Yes, but it should have been 48. I don't know why it came out to 50. Should we bring it down to 48?

Well 25—48 is what is in the—48.3 is what's in the load.

How we doing on time?

Fine.

Well, good. I guess maybe we probably slowed down that much.

Now, it's 51. See?

It came up 48 initially. We're at a different place in the orbit. 30 seconds.

Okay. Are you going to give—you want me to give Texas a mark when you start burning?

I will.

Okay.

Twenty seconds to burn. You got that, Texas?

Roger.

Okay. 3 seconds.