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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 ## CARNARVON 21:43:13 CC Gemini VII, Carnarvon CAP COM. 21:43:17 C Go ahead, Carnarvon, VII. 21:43:19 CC Roger. We noticed a rather sharp decrease in T/M signal strength here. Did you do any switching on telemetry? 21:43:24 C We're dumping urine. 21:43:27 CC Roger. Understand. 21:43:35 C Is that better now? We just turned the Dump switch off. 21:43:37 CC Yes. It was just a momentary dropout. It wasn't very long. 21:44:03 C Roger. 21:44:41 C Did you get the twizzle stick? 21:44:43 P Yes. 21:44:44 C You fink! 21:44:46 C Okay. That last urine dump was the courtesy of Lovell, at about 21:40. 21:44:48 C Okay. We got the fuel cell O2 heater back on. 21:45:02 C Okay. We just got a picture, at 22:26:15, of shallow water on some islands in the Caribbean, or the Gulf of Mexico, I think. CANTON 21:59:26 CC Gemini VII, Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. How do you read? 21:59:33 P This is VII. You're coming in very weak and fading now. ## 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.