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Gemini VII Air-to-Ground Transcript Volume I: 5011500_VolumeI

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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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  • p. 148 …Clouds are about as represented, only white doesn't show in the photograph and the grays…
  • p. 332 …a little bit later of a greenish gray color. Would you agree, Frank? 116:03:11…

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## CONFIDENTIAL

49:30:31	P	Thank you.
49:30:39	CC	Gemini VII. On the update we gave you this morning you noted that the D-4 - the next thing you have - the D-4 had a note, cold IR off. Do you understand that? It just means you are to do that without using the cold IR.
49:30:57	P	Roger.
49:30:58	C	We left the cold IR off.
49:30:59	CC	Roger.
49:31:07	CC	We got a report on your OAMS usage. I think it's essentially been reported correctly to you. You are right on your flight plan profile as far as OAMS usage. Doing real well.
49:31:18	P	I was kind of concerned. We have been using it quite drastically lately.
49:31:22	CC	Well, we have given you a lot to do today. That's the reason.
49:31:30	CC	I have another question, Gemini VII. Could you give us an estimate, for flight planning purposes, on the time required for eating?
49:31:41	C	Roger. It takes at least an hour.
49:31:43	CC	One hour for eating. Roger. And about 10 minutes extra for exercising.
49:31:48	C	That's right. And then we have some other functions that take time too.
49:31:53	CC	Roger. We've noticed that.
49:31:57	C	We haven't done them yet.
49:32:03	C	We've got some pictures coming up here of the islands.
49:32:06	CC	Roger.

## CONFIDENTIAL

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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.