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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
73:28:40 C They hardly ever make it nonstop. 73:28:44 CC Roger. 73:28:54 CC Frank, I really think that we have got a real good handle on what these hydrogen and oxygen quantities are doing and how you're going to use the rest of them during the flight. And I think that you should pay attention to using these auto heaters. We are going to try and give you our best advice this afternoon, and when they give it to you I think you ought to follow it. 73:29:16 C I have been, Chris 73:29:19 CC I'm talking about the use of the auto heaters. Auto positioning. 73:29:24 C Roger. We've been following any advice you gave. 73:29:29 CC Okay. 73:29:30 CC We're talking about leaving them in the AUTO position during the sleep period, Frank. 73:29:36 C Okay, fine, if that's what you want to do. 73:29:38 CC Very good. 73:30:03 CC Frank. We're real pleased about how everything's going, usage of fuel and the productiveness of the flight. And I think we just want to say: keep up the good work. Everything is looking real good for both of you. 73:30:17 C Thank you. 73:30:20 CC How's the suit configuration doing now? Are you both fairly comfortable? 73:30:25 C Roger. 73:30:29 CC You have a Tx on the way in about a half a minute. 73:30:33 C Thank you. 73:30:40 CC Frank, are you squared away with what we're doing
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.