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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
01:33:25 C ... Roger. We are staying within about 50 feet of it. It was venting excessively and this required a little more maneuvering fuel than we had anticipated... 01:33:37 CC Roger. 01:33:40 C We had difficulty getting a good glimpse of it because it was almost directly in front. 01:33:46 CC Roger. And was there any particular direction that this excessive venting caused you to have to maneuver? Was it left, right or up, down or back and forth, or just what did it cause? 01:33:59 C It was initially up and we had to maneuver up and then to the left. 01:34:04 CC Primarily up and to the left initially? 01:34:07 C That's affirmative. The ... looked like an ... and down the side of the booster. 01:34:14 CC Roger. 01:34:17 C ... The platform mode did not help much. I went out of platform because we were - we got too far above it for a while. 01:34:27 CC Roger. Understand. Did you actually terminate the stationkeeping on your OAMS cutoff point? 01:34:37 C Roger. We terminated and started our separation early because we got to 88 percent vent. 01:34:45 CC Roger. 01:35:10 CC Gemini VII, Houston. For your information, on the Fuel Cell light, we think the problem is probably the regulator. Irritator water regulator. And we incidentally, in case you haven't been informed, we do have an indication on the ground that your light is due to an O2 H2O pressure being out of... 01:35:37 C Gemini VII, Roger. 01:37:16 CC Gemini VII, Houston. I have a node update if you're ready to copy.
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.