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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.
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## CONFIDENTIAL 44:01:06 C Just a minute. 44:01:07 CC Roger. 44:01:31 C Ready for the block update. 44:01:32 CC Roger. Area 30-1: 46:04:12; 15 plus 28. Area 31-1: 47:39:40; 14 plus 38. Area 32-4: 50:27:35; 16 plus 40. Area 33-4: 52:03:30; 15 plus 20. Area 34-4: 53:29:02; 14 plus 37. Area 35-3: 54:55:18; 17 plus 03. Area 36-Delta: 55:46:25; 23 plus 24. The weather in all areas is good. These are for reentry. Do you copy? 44:03:06 C Gemini VII, Roger. Thank you. 44:03:09 CC Roger. 44:03:18 C Carnarvon, this is VII. 44:03:20 CC Go ahead, VII. 44:03:21 C We've had another D-4 photometer check, as requested by Houston. I noted that we alined on a star and used it to calibrate, using the A-9 switch at night to turn her off, but the reticle would not go out of the RED. There were four low gains; there were four high gains. 44:03:44 CC Roger. We copy that it would not go out of the RED. 44:04:04 CC Houston copied it as being opposite during the last time that you used it. 44:04:07 C Roger. The first time we attempted to do the experiment with the same settings it appeared that the reticle stayed GREEN. 44:04:18 CC Roger. 44:04:19 C Now the reticle does turn GREEN with the calibrate switch up, but not with it down. 44:04:27 CC Roger. ## 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.