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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.
“Frank Borman”5 pages
24 hours. Could not get the ... because of not enought time for dark ... and it was ... before we could get a good fix on it, and we could not get ... because the sunlight was coming up before that, before we could get a good fix on ..., and we would not be able to follow it down. The moon was out very bright and it might have some effect on the star ... photometer. The photometer could never go RED, it stayed GREEN all the time, and we had to use it through a green reticle. The calibrate - the gain wheel was all the way in the DOWN position. 23:12:16 CC Gemini VII, Carnarvon Surgeon. We have a valid blood pressure. Standing by for your Mark when you start your exercise. 23:12:28 C Starting exercise now. 23:13:05 C ... has completed sending blood pressure. 23:13:12 CC Gemini VII, your cuff is full-scale. 23:14:02 CC Gemini VII, we have a valid blood pressure. Do you have any change in your food or water intake to report? 23:14:11 P This is VII. Negative. We're going to ... exercise program about ... 23:14:16 CC Gemini VII, this is Carnarvon. Say again. 23:14:19 P No changes in food or water report at this time, but we will be starting our exercise program. 23:14:24 CC I understand. No change. Carnarvon Surgeon out. 23:14:47 CC Gemini VII, you don't have to acknowledge this. We're still having a GO on the ground. We'll be standing by. 23:15:02 P Thank you, Carnarvon. # CONFIDENTIAL
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.