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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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Meal A. Also, our MSC-2 and 3 were off at 66 plus 00. I just took a picture, Magazine A, Exposure 43, 66:14:50, of the sunset. The exposure was 2.8 at 1/60th. Okay. We're observing the sunset now. I can see the entire area where the dense part meets the terminator. It's black on the bottom, black on top with blue in between. And as you go out toward the middle you gradually pick up a darker red, right on the earth, giving way to an orange, then a light blue and a very distinct blend of dark blue followed by a lighter blue and then gradually going into a black. So starting out at the bottom next to the earth, it is a red, orange, yellow, light blue, brilliant electric blue, then a definite band of light, and then dark blue and gradually going into a black at sunrise. We are observing no zodiacal light that we can see at that time. We're in perfect position to note it. Just after we're drifting through, but no zodiacal light. ## CARNARVON 66:19:39 CC Gemini VII, Carnarvon. 66:19:42 C Go ahead, Carnarvon. Gemini VII. 66:19:44 CC Roger. How are you doing up there? We've got you good on the ground. 66:19:48 C Everything is fine up here. 66:19:50 CC Roger. We'd like a fuel cell purge whenever you're ready to start it. 66:19:55 C Roger. Stand by for fuel cell purge. 66:21:35 CC Gemini VII, Carnarvon. How did you make out during the night? 66:21:38 C Fine. We slept fairly well. 66:21:40 CC Very good. 66:21:43 C Jim had his suit off. Was very comfortable all evening.
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.