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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 71:32:54 CC D-4/D-7: 71:47:26; Sequence 419; Mode 02; start at Mississippi River and continue to Atlantic Coast. 71:33:24 C Roger, we have that. 71:33:26 CC Okay. That's the flight plan update. Would you put Quantity Read switch to ECS O2 position? 71:33:34 C All right. 71:35:18 P Hawaii, this is Gemini VII. Do you have any word on the weather over Houston? 71:35:22 CC Hold on here a second; let me check. 71:35:30 CC They have to get somebody that can look outside. They've no windows in that building. 71:35:33 C Okay. 71:35:52 CC They say they've got high scattered clouds. 71:35:56 C Okay. Fine. 71:36:54 CC Fuel cell - correction - Quantity Read switch to FUEL CELL O2 position. 71:36:57 C Roger. 71:41:36 P Okay. We're turning on the IR for a run from the Mississippi to the Atlantic. Getting set here. We had to delete S-8/D-13 because of weather; we are changing the emphasis on there. D-14 also. Okay. We finished D-4/D-7, taking an IR run sequence for 419, Mode 2. So actually we ran it all the way from Mexico to Florida. Pointed down to the earth. We have some clouds in there but quite a great deal of ... We also took some series of pictures of Houston and then some color-shifted IR film across Mississippi and Florida. All of this is recorded in the log book. ## GUAYMAS 71:41:48 C Hawaii, this is Gemini. Can we turn off the Hydrogen Read switch now?
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.