Documents / Official release
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
Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.
## CONFIDENTIAL 88:22:53 C All these are taken at drifting flight. 88:22:54 P Commenting on the Apollo Landmarks: I thought the map here was very adequate. As a matter of fact, it was a very fine representation of the view of the eastern Mediterranean - particularly Africa ... taking a picture at 88:29. 88:40:16 C Okay. At 88:31:32: taking pictures of stratified cloud formations ... Indian Ocean. 88:40:19 P Also, at about the same time, 88:16, there's a beautiful shot of a full moon against the black sky and the strato formations of the clouds of the earth below. 89:09:34 C Borman's dumping urine. Urine's approximately 1 minute. P Standing by. Lovell's going to dump urine. P There's a sight to behold! P Frank. C ... what? P Oh! ## CANARY ISLANDS 89:42:22 CC Gemini VII, Canary CAP COM. Com check. How do you read? Over. 89:42:46 P Good morning, Canary. This is Gemini VII. 89:42:48 CC And good morning to you, VII. How are you this morning? 89:42:51 P Oh, very nice, very nice! 89:42:53 CC Okay. We have a fuel cell purge coming up, whenever you're ready. 89:43:00 P We just purged them about a half-hour ago according to flight plans.
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.