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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.
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93:36:41 C Okay. Now Jim, the sun ought to be coming up right there. We're looking right at it. 93:37:02 C ... Are you going to take a shot now? 93:37:07 P No. 93:37:08 C What? 93:37:09 P No. 93:37:10 C No? 93:37:12 C How's that? 93:37:27 P Okay. Looks good. 93:37:29 C I can't ... okay? 93:37:32 P That's okay. 93:37:39 C See if you can see the ... light. You're supposed to be able to see it. 93:37:43 P Swing over that way to the left. 93:37:48 C Swing over that way. 93:38:10 P Yes, there's the light. C Go ahead, Hawaii. 93:38:11 C ... wait just a minute. Are you in good shape for the sun now? 93:38:17 P Yes, you're pitching up. 93:38:19 C Pitch up now? 93:38:22 P Okay. I'm in good shape for the sun. 93:38:40 P ... I turned down the filter all the way so we can get the first strike of the ... coming up. 93:38:43 C Okay. 93:38:47 P Now you can just barely make out the horizon ... filters.
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.