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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 52:31:44 C The window filter. The window filter is cutting down the amount of light. Recommend it on all points. Some general comments about our first attempt at D-9 restricted at 51 hours, 13 minutes: first of all, there was no trouble with getting the section out; they are easily handled inside the spacecraft at zero g. The strap on the side is useless, in fact it's in fact it's so close to the knob that it sometimes gets in the way of turning the knob. The stars are sometimes hard to acquire ... because one or two of the ... of the lens will get in the way on the spacecraft structure of the window and block out one or the other ... and it's hard to tell. The green filter has proved to be useless because I couldn't see the horizon through it. All the shots are taken to the horizon under the top or bottom of the upper air ... area and ... more definite block. The lower horizon down there ... ## HOUSTON 52:34:30 CC Gemini VII, Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. We have a good oral temp. Give us a blood pressure and stand by for Surgeon. 52:34:46 CC Gemini VII, Houston Surgeon. Your cuff is fullscale. 52:35:44 CC Gemini VII. We have a good blood pressure. Standing by for exercise on your Mark. 52:36:17 P ... exercising ... blood pressure. 52:36:24 CC Gemini VII, your cuff is full-scale. 52:37:21 CC Gemini VII, Houston Surgeon. We have a good blood pressure. Standing by for your food, water and sleep report. 52:37:34 C Roger, Houston. Water report on the Command Pilot, 211 ounces to date. One more meal. That's Day 3, Meal C, and one ... blue bag ... On the Pilot, 166 ounces of water to date. The same meal, D-3 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.