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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 93:28:49 CC That's affirm. 93:28:51 P Roger. We'll be standing by for Bermuda's call. 93:28:53 CC Roger. 93:28:54 C S-8/D-13 ... degrees down ... 93:28:58 P No, no ... 93:29:22 P This is D-4/D-7 again. The night water and night land measurements. Quite a few clouds down here and I don't know whether you'll get good results from this. We should be passing over water, not land. 93:29:43 C Yes, we're over water now at 93:29:30. 93:29:45 P 93:29:30 over water ... 93:29:53 P Wait a minute, Frank. Water. 93:29:56 C All right. 93:29:59 C ... clouds. 93:30:01 P ... quite a few clouds. 93:31:19 C Now we are getting some water intermingled now with the clouds. Water now. 93:31:24 C Water and clouds. 93:31:29 C Water. 93:31:34 C Clouds. Very bright moon. The clouds should appear much brighter than the water. The water is dark. 93:31:41 P Do you feel you're straight down now? C No, I know I'm not straight down. I'm practically ... 93:31:45 P Oh, I see. 93:31:48 C ... water ... See what I mean. ## 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.