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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
24:01:29 CC Gemini VII. Do you have any S-8/D-13 vision test or scores that you could give us?
24:01:40 C Not right now, Elliot. We didn't understand that would be REAL-TIME ... put away.
24:01:48 P Gem ... on one of the other sights.
24:01:50 CC Okay. We did want those out REAL-TIME, then that will be good on the future sight. We hope you'll have good luck on that S-8/D-13 on that next pass. It's very clear weather and, as I said, the smoke pots are all set up on the north edge, and they're trying to get a smoke generator set up on the northwest corner. They're not sure they'll have that, but there are a lot of smoke pots along the north edge there, so it should be well marked.
24:02:15 P Roger. We'll be looking.
24:02:18 P Gem - here we have a - a GO/NO-GO quantities on the fuel cells for you.
24:02:26 CC Go ahead.
24:02:27 P 1A reads 3.5; 1B, 4.0; 1C, 4.0; 2A, 3.5; 2B, 3.5; 2C, 4.5.
24:02:42 CC Roger.
24:02:44 P RCS, A: 3,000, temperature 75. D: 3,000, temperature 75. Left-hand secondary $ O_{2} $ : 5400; right-hand secondary $ O_{2} $ : 5200. All main batteries are 22 over and above.
24:03:00 CC Roger.
24:03:03 P Main - all the way to the main bus is 27.3.
24:03:08 CC 27.3 main bus voltage. Roger.
24:03:19 CC Gemini VII, have you noted any improvement in the fuel cell performance following the purges?
24:03:29 P We've noticed no change.
24:03:32 CC Roger.
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.