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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.
“Borman”20 pages
02:26:46 CC Wish you were 100 percent on the ground, VII. 02:26:49 C Thank you. 02:26:59 CC Okay. You should return it to the OFF position, VII. 02:27:03 C Okay. I have the heater back off now. It was down to ... when we turned it off, but it's off now. 02:27:10 CC Roger. Understand. 02:27:16 C Carnarvon, will you check with Houston to see if there are any special purge instructions for the purge coming up? 02:27:26 CC Roger. There are no special instructions, just a normal purge. 02:27:29 C Very well, thank you. HAWAII 02:50:29 CC Gemini VII, Hawaii CAP COM. 02:50:30 C Hawaii CAP COM, Gemini VII. 02:50:32 CC How you doing? 02:50:33 C Very good. 02:50:34 CC Okay. We show you GO down here. They're going to do a fuel cell purge over Texas and they want you to be ready for it and they will advise you when they want you to start. They're going to wait till they get good telemetry at that time. 02:50:46 C All right. 02:50:47 CC All right. 02:50:52 C Would you tell them we would like to have a good star reference for the Apogee Maneuver too? 02:50:58 CC Roger.
Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 341 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.