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This is Volume I of III of the Gemini VII voice communications transcript, covering pages 1 to 337 and marked Confidential. It records air-to-ground, ground-to-air and on-board exchanges beginning at lift-off. Early passages cover staging, orbit insertion and stationkeeping with the booster, which the crew reports is venting heavily, and they photograph it. Later passages near 116 hours hold the crew's detailed descriptions of airglow, stars and a sunrise seen from orbit.
“Frank Borman”5 pages
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## CONFIDENTIAL 29:00:20 C Just took a time exposure of the sunset. 29:16:30 C Exposure Number 12 ... 29:16:40 ... 29:16:42 C Okay. 29:20. We are discontinuing MSC-2 and 3 at 29:20 ... 29:20:15 C Okay. At 29:20 435 took two pictures of the only area in the vicinity that looks like tropical storm Alice. Don't see any East S0217; exposure setting f4 to 250 is the very ... 29:24:49 P At 29:37 ... 29:39:53 C You want? 29:41:13 C Starting now, keep you ... down ... back up ... 29:42:01 C Repeating the run, starting at the top. 29:42:10 C Back up, down. 29:42:29 C VII. Roger. 29:42:58 C That is a very difficult task to do without any type of wing valves or any other ... Going to start out with a light film on those that are visible; right-hand window has a slight film in the middle and the outside one; and the left-hand window has one that is visible at certain times. However, I think that by and large we can say they are very good. 29:43:22 P Just took a picture of the moon. Set 10 degrees above the horizon, using recommended setting of f4 to 350th S0217 film. Elapsed time, 30 hours, 00 minutes. Magazine A, Exposure 14. ## HAWAII 29:57:30 CC Gemini VII, Hawaii CAP COM. 29:57:32 C Go ahead, Hawaii. ## CONFIDENTIAL
Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 341 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.