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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.
## CONFIDENTIAL 70:42:41 P I lost ... Do you have it? You can do what you want to ... Is the recorder still on? Is the recorder still on or not? ... 70:44:39 P Measure to the top of the bright-band horizon without the filter. The horizon is completely unavailable with the green filter in. ## TANANARIVE 70:50:15 CC Gemini VII, Houston. Were you calling? 70:50:29 CC Gemini VII, You're very weak. Say again, please. 70:50:32 C The green filter on this segment blocks out the horizon completely. 70:50:38 CC Roger. So you're not using it at all? 70:50:41 C We're using no filter. 70:50:43 CC Roger. I read you. 71:11:56 C Right. This is the second sequence. Temperature 410. 71:12:10 C ... 15 minutes ... cloud cover on the earth ... ... is just one bright band ... It appears to us as the earth's horizon but it's vague and biggest of the stars ... 71:12:39 C All our shots are ... horizon which is probably a glow of the earth break where the cloud ... 71:12:48 P All of our cloud shots have been ... rolled the spacecraft vertically so that the window ... 71:13:22 C ... shots. ... 71:24:27 P Jim is now on record commenting on the ... horizon with the blue-haze filter, D-9. I can see the horizon and the earth through the blue-haze filter. I cannot pick out any airglow band above the horizon though. Just blue-haze color.
Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 341 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.