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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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# CONFIDENTIAL 97:27:51 P No calibration. We had no calibration... 97:28:43 P Roger. We copied. 97:28:46 CC Okay. I think we're about to run this down, and I think this test should certainly wind it up. 97:29:00 C We have it. We'll try it. 97:29:03 CC Roger. 97:29:16 P ... 97:29:25 C Is that all? 97:29:27 P At 41 we have a D-9... 97:49:23 P I've gotten in a D-9 and we're trying to shoot Aldebaran on the horizon. Two factors sort of force this operation. One of them is the fact that Aldebaran, due to the moon being full, is in the vicinity of Orion and it just about blanks out any stars. We did manage to pick up Aldebaran, but it is so high and so faint that we never could get a really good shot at it. 98:06:13 P Our ... comments on D-9: temperature ... First of all, Aldebaran is, as we previously stated, too close to the moon and we used Mirak and Almak. Almak was fairly high but we could just ... to a degree, because it was farther away from the moon. We went back again - 98:06:32 C ... 98:06:37 P We didn't ... Almak so we went back to get Mirak and the moon's light was so bright that as we tried to bring it down to the horizon, it just faded into the airglow on the horizon. You couldn't get a definite horizon at all on it. The star itself was too dim with the bright full-moon background to get a good shot. Instead, we plan to use stars away - at least 90 degrees from the moon, and the full moon is due in seconds... 98:07:34 P One more comment on D-9: now as there is a - moon is full ... two things it does. Number 1 is
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