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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
at 2:03:09. D-4/D-7 at 2 plus 04 plus 40; 2 minutes on Sirius; D-4/D-7 complete. D-4/D-7: we have turned on the recorder at 2 plus 12 plus 29 to pick up the horizon. We didn't turn on any sooner because of the long time to get down. At approximately 2 hours 31 minutes 17 seconds: both ECS bypasses are connected at this time. At 2 plus 39 - 2 plus 39: M-1 experiment connected and operating. At 3 hours and 2 minutes the fuel cell $ \mathrm{O_{2}} $ heater back on. Momentarily, the pressure of the Fuel Cell $ \mathrm{O_{2}} $ went down to 200. Fuel Cell $ \mathrm{O_{2}} $ heater going off at 3 plus 28 plus 26. At 4 hours 00:00 minutes, seconds: BIO MED Tape Recorder Number 2 is off. At 4 hours and 15 minutes the FC $ \mathrm{O_{2}} $ heater was on; pressure was at 200.
02:12:53 CC Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. How do you read?
02:12:58 C Loud and clear, Houston. This is Gemini VII. Go ahead.
02:13:01 CC Roger. Just checking communications through Tananarive. We weren't able to get you last time. We have no additional information. Standing by.
02:13:13 C ... understand ...
02:13:22 CC Would you say again, Gemini VII?
02:13:25 C We tracked the booster this pass ...
02:13:30 CC Roger. Is that with the D-4 experiment?
02:13:33 C That's it.
02:13:35 CC Okay.
02:13:44 CC Gemini VII, Houston. Are you getting a reading on your OAMS gage for the experiment position?
02:13:51 C That's right. ... we turned the heater back on - pressure decreasing - the fuel cell $ \mathrm{O_{2}} $ heater is on.
02:14:02 CC Understand your fuel cell oxygen pressure decreased below 200 pounds so you have turned the heater back on.
## 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.