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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.
“Gulf of Mexico”1 page
20:54:22 C Stand by. 20:54:25 CC And do you have a propellant quantity readout? 20:54:31 C This is VII. Propellant quantity is 68. 20:54:36 CC 68? 20:54:38 C Roger. Six eight percent. 20:54:40 CC Roger. Would you place your Quantity Read switch to the FUEL CELL O2 position again? 20:54:52 C Houston ... six one ounces of water. 20:54:57 CC 61 ounces for CP. Roger. 20:55:01 C Roger. And the P's had 52 - 52 ounces of water. 20:55:09 CC Roger. Five two ounces for the Pilot. And what were the times of those final readings? 20:55:27 CC Do you have the times marked down of the final - the last water entries? 20:55:31 C Roger. CP was 18 plus five zero. 20:55:35 CC Roger. 18 plus five zero. And yours, Jim? 20:55:39 P 18 plus three zero, for mine. 20:55:41 CC 18 plus three zero. Roger. 20:55:45 P ... we had ... mixed with the food we had for breakfast, Elliot. 20:55:50 CC Roger. 20:55:55 CC Next time over we'll get this crew status report from you and give you an update on the news. CANARY ISLANDS 21:01:43 CC Five zero zero. PIA update over Canary. That's
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.