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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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115:20:10 C Roger. Understand. Turn off Pump B, turn on Pump A primary loop after cabin survey.
115:20:18 CC Roger. That's affirmative, and you might take a look at your $ \mathrm{H}_{2} $ pressure. Pump it up a little bit.
Canary, this is Gemini VII. Our cab - our suit temperature's gone down a little bit now since we turned the cabin cooler - Cabin Heat control back to WARM. I prefer not to go to Pump A on that big loop. I don't want to close the fuel cells. I would prefer to go to Compressor 1 and 2 if they don't mind, for a while, just to get it cool, and then we'll go back to 1.
115:20:57 CC Wait one.
115:20:58 C In the meantime, I'll run it the way I am until we get too hot.
115:21:14 CC Flight says he concurs with you a little bit, but turning on Primary Pump A is going to bring the amp up and it'll help the fuel cell rather than hurt it.
115:21:31 C Okay. When we get too warm, we'll turn on Pump A and turn off Pump B. I'm not worried about that. I'm worried about the coolant - change in the coolant flow through the fuel cell.
115:21:41 C I don't want to put a load on it.
115:21:45 CC That's no problem either.
115:21:47 C Record the ...
115:21:48 C Okay.
115:21:53 P S-6 completed in about 115:17 to :18. Three pictures were taken of the Canaries, showing the cloud formations on the islands. The Magazine M of S0217, 44, 45 and 46, I believe, were the exposures.
115:22:09 P At 115, one note occurring, pertaining to cabin temperature: the sunlight, when it shines directly through the windows, produces an awful lot of heat in the cockpit. I'd say the temperature rises maybe 10 to 15 degrees right by the window. This is a big
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