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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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116:09:50 P Yes, that's where your greens come from too, I think. 116:09:55 C Yes. 116:09:59 C Now looking at the horizon you see, very vividly, clouds. 116:10:04 C Not a smooth horizon - it would be very difficult to make a reading on that horizon, too. 116:10:07 P Yes. That's right. As a matter of fact, the horizon which we were making readings on at night is probably that lower airglow air above the earth. 116:10:21 C Now you notice the blue is getting even brighter. You can really see daylight out there now; a thin-shafted blue sky. 116:10:28 P As a matter of fact, Frank, I think there's more yellow over on your side than there is on mine. I bet the sun's going to come up over there. 116:10:38 P What do you say the length of this whole light is now - the left part - what degree? 116:10:45 C Almost 180 degrees now. I can't see the edge of it over here on my side. 116:10:47 P You can't see the edge of it? 116:10:50 C Just barely. 116:10:51 P Okay. I can see the edge of it. I think if we point towards the middle, we'll be able to - she's blotting out quite rapidly now. 116:10:59 P Yes. Now the blue area has increased. Toward the top it's lightish purple; it goes into a very light purple to blue. There's that band area that was orange and red. ... cloud forms. 116:11:33 C Fantastic sight! Isn't it? 116:11:35 P Yes. 116:11:36 P Notice the blue.
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.