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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 115:54:01 C Go ahead. 115:54:03 CC We would like to ask first of all why - how is it that Jim is not taking in quite as much fluid as we think he ought to and wonder why. Does he have first of all, is he thirsty? 115:54:18 P This is Lovell. Number one is I'm out of the suit and Frank's in it. I'm not sweating as much as he is. 115:54:26 CC Well, that's one of the problems. First of all, are you thirsty? Do you - is the reason you're not drinking because you're just not thirsty? 115:54:35 P Just not thirsty. I think that's... 115:54:38 CC Very well. Is Frank sweating? Frankly, just a - overtly sweating? 115:54:45 P He said not much. 115:54:47 CC Does - do you notice in looking at him that his skin is moist? 115:54:51 P I'll let him answer that. 115:54:53 C During the 10 days before when we ran the 1070 experiment, I drank almost twice as much water as Jim did, and I think it is probably natural for me to drink a little more. I'm pretty comfortable now. Our cabin temperature's gone down, my suit temperature's gone down, and we both feel we are in pretty good shape. 115:55:09 CC Understand. Have you been sweating at all, Frank? 115:55:19 CC Gemini VII, this is Carnarvon. Did you copy? 115:55:22 C About sweating? I'd say, yes I'm perspiring a little. 115:55:26 CC Very well. Thank you. 115:55:27 C Roger 115:55:28 CC Then, I think that all we would pass then is - Jim, can I get you to take in a little more water?
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.