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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 116:03:21 P Could you measure the time? 116:03:23 C Time was - stand by. 116:03:26 P Well, let's see, maybe we can get a colored star here. 116:03:31 C I just got ... star. 116:03:33 P 116:03:34. Star passed - dim star passed through the airglow and did not... 116:03:38 C I don't see how the airglow could be used for horizon measurements. 116:03:40 P No, definitely not. The bright band, I say "bright", just as relatively speaking for the rest of the airglow. 116:03:47 C Now look, there's a dim star coming up right out there now, Jim. 116:03:49 P Yes. 116:03:52 C See it? Very dim, coming right through the airglow, following it all the way through, not occulted at all. Right through the airglow. 116:04:03 P You can see through the bright bands, which is - 116:04:05 C Right through the bright bands. Right. And it's a very dim star. 116:04:07 P I'm sure you can't use the airglow, the top airglow layer that we see as a - as a navigation mark, since it is too fuzzy. A much better one is the horizon of the earth, which is probably a bright airglow, and we just don't notice the difference of that and the end of the clouds. That is probably much better - horizon - to use than anything else. 116:04:38 C I'm - I'm struck with the clearness of the clouds in this full moon. 116:04:41 P Yes. A full moon makes a big difference. 116:04:44 C You might think you're just in daytime - ## CONFIDENTIAL
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.