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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.
96:24:33 C All right. ... let's put it away. 96:24:35 P We'll tell ... 96:24:38 C Yes, we will, but I mean there is nothing we can do about it. Ready? 96:24:40 P Yes. 96:24:41 P .. 96:24:45 C Yes. ## CARNARVON 96:38:09 CC Gemini VII, Carnarvon. 96:38:24 P This is VII. Go ahead, Carnarvon. 96:38:26 CC Okay. We'd like to have you close your DCS circuit breaker, please. 96:38:35 P Roger, DCS is closed. 96:38:37 CC Okay. Very good. 96:38:45 C Now, will you relay a message to Houston for us? 96:38:46 CC Sure will. 96:38:48 C On this D-5 photometer, when we aline on Venus, in the NIGHT position the reticle stays GREEN regardless of what you do and in the DAY position, it stays RED regardless of what you do. 96:39:05 CC Roger. Copy. In the NIGHT position it stays GREEN and in the DAY position it stays RED. Is that affirm? 96:39:14 C Whether you have the Calibrate on or not and regardless of what you have it pointed at. 96:39:19 CC Roger. We copy. 96:39:50 CC VII, you're looking good here on the ground. We ## 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.