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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
101:51:56 CC Roger.
101:52:08 CC The Quantity Read switch to the FUEL CELL $ \mathrm{O}_{2} $ position.
101:52:12 C FUEL CELL $ \mathrm{O}_{2^{\circ}} $
101:52:13 CC Roger. We've got some data for the Command Pilot, if he would like to listen.
101:52:18 C Go ahead.
101:52:19 CC Okay. The fuel cell status. Stack times have been balanced within .5 to .75 amps for the mission with the exception of 2-Charlie. Charlie has been a hot stack both prelaunch and flight. A plot of percent total load sharing versus time shows the following figures: Prelaunch, 18.6 percent; 20 hours, 20.0 percent. Quantity Read to the FUEL CELL $ \mathrm{H}_{2} $ position, please. 40 hours, 20.0 percent; 60 hours, 20.0 percent; 80 hours, 21.0 percent; 100 hours, 20.5 percent. Data indicates load sharing has not changed depreciably since lift-off. Looks like we have a good stable fuel cell system. The G-Stacks normally share a larger percent of load since the coolant fluid is higher in these stacks. Over.
101:53:55 C Roger. Thank you very much.
101:53:57 CC Roger.
101:54:13 CC Quantity Read switch off, please.
101:54:15 C Quantity Read off. Understand you want me to monitor $ \mathrm{H}_{2} $ and keep above 310 tonight.
101:54:30 CC What we'd like you to do is - you don't have to monitor it, you - it shouldn't drop any lower than that point.
101:54:38 C Okay. If it does, you all give us a call, will you?
101:54:40 CC That's affirmative. People on the ground will watch it for you.
## CONFIDENTIAL 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.