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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.
“Borman”20 pages
## CONFIDENTIAL 01:31:32 C Loud and clear, Houston. Go ahead. 01:31:35 CC Roger, Frank. We've been continuing to discuss the Fuel Cell light, and the feeling at the present time is we want to continue to observe it and probably wait at least through your fuel cell purge. We do not see any problem that this could present, and we feel that that will be a meaningful factor to help us understand what's going on, or else we're going to continue to observe the oxygen quantity. Do you have any comments you'd like to feed in at this point? 01:32:11 C Roger. We're just getting the critical tape dump ... just jumped up. The only thing I was wondering about is, do you want us to open the crossover valve to see if that does any good? 01:32:21 CC Well, that's one thing we're considering, Frank, but we do not want to do that yet. 01:32:26 C Okay. 01:32:30 C We're getting ... oxygen quantity now is about 99 - almost 100 percent and the oxygen pressure is dropping again. It's now down to 230. 01:32:41 CC Down to 230? 01:32:43 C Roger. 01:32:44 CC Roger. 01:32:49 CC And you say 99 to 100 percent on quantity? 01:32:53 C Roger. The quantity is just almost 100 percent. 01:32:57 CC Roger. 01:33:00 CC And could you describe the Stationkeeping Exercise for us a little better? As best we could - we had pretty bad communications before. It's very good now. We understood that the booster was venting quite excessively and tumbling quite a bit and this somewhat complicated the stationkeeping procedure. That is, it required quite a bit of maneuvering but you were able to do it all right. ## 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.