This is Gemini Control, Houston, We'd like to review some of the maneuvers coming up. These values may change, but probably only slightly. Presently the spacecraft is over Hawaii. They are in conversation now, but first we will cover this maneuver information. At 1 hour, 34 minutes and 37 seconds into the flight, they are to perform a slight height change. This will come south of New Orleans several hundred miles out over the Gulf, on this pass on and below the U.S. The delta-V is now to be a -2.9 or retrograde maneuver. This will leave the spacecraft with an estimated 722 pounds of usable fuel onboard. At 2 hours and 18 minutes and 25 seconds into the flight, the spacecraft is to perform a phasing maneuver which will require a delta-V or a delta velocity of 51.2 feet per second. At 2 hours and 45 minutes, 31 seconds into the flight, the spacecraft will perform a plane change or maneuver calculated to get rid of a very slight wedge angle in the two orbits. This angle is presently estimated at .05 degrees. The spacecraft will be oriented with the blunt end north and will burn toward the south. It will burn 25.7 feet per second and this will leave the spacecraft with some 643 pounds of fuel remaining. We will be along 3 hours and 47 minutes and 36 seconds into the flight, the spacecraft will perform its coelliptic burn, or circularization burn. This is one of the larger burns, 59.2 feet per second and it will leave the spacecraft with 583 pounds. At 5 hours and 4 minutes into the flight the spacecraft will initiate its terminal phase maneuver. And at 5 hours and 36 minutes into the flight, they will perform a maneuver which will require a 43.6 feet per second. This will be the terminal phase final. Now, as we have been talking, we have been hearing in our other ear that Wally Schirra and Frank Borman, who are returning from their far eastern tour, we believe they're in Hawaii and we understand they are trying to contact the spacecraft. They haven’t put out a call for several minutes but Neil Armstrong and Dave Scott are aware that they're being paged and the Schirra advised that their call sign is Gemini 76. At 1 hour and 20 minutes into the flight, this is Gemini Control, Houston.

This is Gemini Control, Houston. We've just been handed the final computer runouts on the initial orbit for the Gemini 8 spacecraft. It goes like this - these are conditions at second stage cut-off plus 20 seconds. In other words, that time when the spacecraft would have parted from the second stage. The insertion velocity at SECO plus 20 seconds was - the actual was 25,737 feet per second. This against a planned value of 25,730 feet per second. The perigee presently shows 86.2 actual, 86.2 nautical miles, as against the planned value of 86.8 nautical miles. The apogee, actual, 146.2 versus a planned apogee of 146.0 [nautical miles]. We have conversation between the ground and the spacecraft from Hawaii and here it is.

This is Gemini Control, Houston. A little additional information on the inclination of these two vehicles - the Agena achieved a 28.86-degree orbit - that is the degree that it is running north and south of the equator. The planned value for the Agena was 28.87 degrees - off by .01 degrees. Meanwhile the Gemini 8 achieved a 28.91-degree inclination - the planned value there was 28.86. So on our one plane change maneuver we will burn off that .05-degree difference in order to make the two inclinations match. The Guaymas station acquired Gemini 8 only a minute or so ago. Let's tune in on that conversation live.

This is Gemini Control, Houston, here. In just four minutes the spacecraft will perform their first maneuver and as we’ve been talking the Texas station assumed control. Let’s go back live.

This is Gemini Control, Houston. We're about one minute away from the burn. Mark one minute.

1966-03-16, 12:20 pm. This is Gemini Control, Houston. That will conclude the conversation for this pass as the spacecraft moves we've had LOS from the Antigua station. We expect further contact several minutes from now when they are in the zone of the Ascension Island station. At 1 hour and 46 minutes into the flight of Gemini 8, this is the Control Center in Houston.