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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 96:21:21 C ... 96:21:23 C Calibration unsuccessful. Released Calibrate button and ... cal not successful. Repeat cal without depressing Cal button. Try doing it without depressing the Cal button. 96:21:35 P Okay. 96:21:53 C Did it work? 96:21:57 P I don't know. 96:21:59 C Is that in good position, Jim? 96:22:02 P It was pretty far to the right here. 96:22:15 P No? All right, in the same thing, ninth scale, no filter - - 96:22:21 C That sure is right. I double-checked it so it has to be. 96:22:28 P Okay. Ninth - Can you read it? 96:22:33 C In the ninth position. 96:22:35 C What happened? Anything? 96:22:38 P The reticle just stays GREEN. 96:22:43 C Okay, repeat cal. Track Venus for 15 seconds; remove and count gain wheel constant max. Okay, it doesn't matter ... count. It just stays GREEN. 96:22:52 P Calibrate, to me, is when we go from RED to GREEN, or from - - 96:22:57 C But you can't get it to go from RED, can you? 96:22:59 P No, now it went RED if I go into daylight, now - I'll go into day. This shouldn't hurt it at all. 96:23:04 C Yes. 96:23:07 P All right. We have a brilliant RED. ## 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.