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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.
# CONFIDENTIAL
23:53:05 CC Is Frank available to talk to while you're doing that, Jim?
23:53:10 P ... go.
23:53:16 CC Frank, we have an opportunity to take a picture of the Houston area on this pass. It's not real close but if you have - if you're able to, you might take one. And on the next pass we have an S-8/D-13. Laredo - the weather is very good and very clear. We have smoke pots set up along the north edge of the pattern. The wind is coming from the south and you should have a real good opportunity there. And it will be an even better opportunity to take a picture of Houston on that pass if you can manage to do it after the Laredo pass. Of course, the S-8/D-13 has top priority.
23:53:59 C Roger. When did they move it to Laredo? I thought it was in California.
23:54:03 CC You mean Yuma.
23:54:07 CC Maybe it's still in Yuma.
23:54:10 P Gemini is purging now.
23:54:12 CC Roger. Observing the purge.
23:54:24 CC You have a $ \mathrm{T}_{\mathrm{X}} $ on the way, Gemini VII.
23:54:27 C Thank you.
23:54:41 CC Reason - -
23:54:42 C Did you observe the purge?
23:54:45 CC Roger. We're observing the purge.
23:54:46 C Okay.
23:54:47 CC The reason we're asking for this picture of Houston is we have unusually clear weather here at the present time. We thought it would be a good opportunity to take a picture.
23:54:59 C We will try.
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.