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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 116:07:00 P And then beneath it, where the sun is probably going to come up, the band of reddish orange is now increased in diameter. Do you agree? 116:07:09 C I agree, increasing and you see the - and you can also now pick out clouds on the horizon. 116:07:14 P Yes. 116:07:16 P And the blue band now is sort of washed out to a little bit - - 116:07:19 C Toward the top? 116:07:21 P Yes. Toward the top. 116:07:23 P It's still beneath what I say would be the thickness of the airglow, would you say? 116:07:24 C Oh yes, it is. It certainly is. As a matter of fact, from horizon to horizon you can see the sunrise. 116:07:40 C Yes. 116:07:45 C Now as the sun comes up the airglow seems to vanish in that area. 116:07:48 P Yes, just about now the airglow is just about vanished, but away from the line of light coming up, the airglow is ... 116:07:57 C ... see it. 116:07:59 P Right. 116:08:02 C It's obscured by the brightness of the sun - the sunlight. We still can't see the middle of the sun. 116:08:07 C Now the reds close to the earth are getting more vivid, giving way to yellow. Right, Jim? 116:08:11 P Yes. 116:08:14 C And you can see bumps of an occasional cloud in there. You notice it's not a uniform horizon any more.
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.