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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.
“Borman”20 pages
## CONFIDENTIAL Time Command Message 71:41:56 CC Gemini VII, Guaymas CAP COM. Roger. You can turn it to the OFF position. 71:42:00 C Thank you. Do you want me to turn that heater on or ... 71:42:18 CC Gemini VII, Guaymas CAP COM. Flight advises they'll wait and look at it over the States and then give you - - 71:42:26 C Okay. 71:42:31 CC All systems look good here on the ground. We don't have anything special for you. We'll be standing by. 71:42:36 C Thank you. TEXAS 71:45:15 CC Gemini VII, Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. 71:45:26 CC Gemini VII, Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. 71:45:29 C Go ahead, Houston. Gemini VII. 71:45:32 CC Roger. We would like to have you take a look at the weather in the Houston - in the Laredo area this time in preparation for a possible pass next time. Can you see it at all? 71:45:47 P Roger. Houston. 71:46:19 CC Gemini VII, Houston. Could you place your Quantity Read switch in the FUEL CELL HYDROGEN position? We're not sure we got a good readout at Hawaii. 71:46:28 C It reads about 380. 71:46:31 CC Roger. 71:46:40 CC Can you see Laredo at all? 71:46:42 P We're not there yet. CONFIDENTIAL
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.