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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 03:03:06 CC Roger. 03:04:44 CC Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. How do you read? 03:05:09 CC Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. How do you read? 03:05:13 C Loud and clear ... 03:05:15 CC Roger. We're ready for you to start your fuel cell purge now and you might - stand by a minute, stand by VII - 03:05:25 CC Gemini VII, now we're ready for you to start your fuel cell purge and you might observe the Fuel Cell light when you turn the crossover valve on. We think it may go off at that time. 03:05:36 P Roger. Understand. 03:05:40 P Starting purge. The crossover valve is on but the light did not go out. 03:05:47 CC Roger. 03:09:14 C Houston, this is Gemini VII. The booster is just passing the horizon, the outer air ... 03:10:07 CC Gemini VII, we observe you've completed your negative, we understand you're still purging. 03:10:13 C That's Roger. 03:10:15 C How do you read now, Houston? 03:10:17 CC Loud and clear. 03:10:18 C Did you get my information about the booster crossing the horizon? 03:10:21 CC Roger. We did. I was off the channel myself but someone else heard it. 03:10:33 CC Still got that Delta-P light? 03:10:35 C Roger. 03:10:36 CC Did you get lights during the hydrogen purging?
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.