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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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Time Commander Comment 22:25:06 CC Okay, Frank. You were going to try and do some estimates of ... volume. We'll wait for that until a later time. Do you think that this is helpful? Do you think you're going to be able to do that? If so, just say yes or no and we can try and get it on a later pass. 22:25:23 C Negative. I don't think I'll be able to give you any accurate volume. 22:25:26 CC Okay. Fine. We'll dispense with it and not even try it then. 22:25:34 C ... 22:25:36 C Chuck, for your information, this water gun is working very well and the ... unit also is functioning all right. 22:25:49 CC Gemini VII, this is Houston Surgeon. I read that the water gun was working very well. I didn't get the last unit that was functioning. 22:25:56 C ... unit. Bill Halstatter's unit. 22:26:04 CC Roger. 22:26:28 C Houston, this is Gemini VII. Can you give us a time hack on the elapsed time, please? 22:26:33 CC Roger. Elapsed time. I'll give you hack at 22:26:45. 22:26:48 CC MARK. 22:26:45. 22:26:53 C Roger. The elapsed timer working beautifully also. We haven't gained or lost a second on you. 22:26:58 CC Roger. 22:27:04 CC Got some news reports here, Frank. If it's a convenient time. 22:27:07 C Roger. Incidentally, Jim has just turned on the radar transponder. I hope you're reading it. 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.