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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.
“Frank Borman”5 pages
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# CONFIDENTIAL 115:57:01 C Okay. ## CARNARVON 115:58:34 CC Gemini VII, Carnarvon. 115:58:35 C Go ahead. 115:58:36 CC Do you have both the compressors on at this time? 115:58:39 C Negative, negative. We will not do that. We were told not to do that. 115:58:43 CC Roger. Understand. 115:58:45 C We've done nothing. That's Yardley's philosophy. When in doubt, do nothing. 115:58:48 CC Roger. 115:58:56 CC Flight Director says that's Kraft's philosophy. 115:58:59 C Okay, it's also Borman's. 115:59:01 CC Roger. Concerning some airglow phenomena, as requested by the Academy of Sciences: we are now looking out at the nighttime, practically a full moon. It is very easy to spot the earth below and the white clouds. We can see definitely the airglow, it is consistent throughout our entire range that we can see, and through prior observations have noted that there is no patchiness or inconsistency about the airglow layer. It's one band and we'll get the - one visual band that we can see when we get the measurement a little bit later of a greenish gray color. Would you agree, Frank? 116:03:11 C I agree. 116:03:13 P It's not a definite green, it's - - 116:03:15 C - - there's a star going right through it now, very dim star going right through it ...
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.