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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 40:40:01 CC Could you tell about how long it was off? 40:40:04 C No. As a matter-of-fact, I didn't notice it go off. I just saw it come back on, but it couldn't have been more than 2 or 3 minutes because we just checked it. 40:40:12 CC Roger. CARNARVON 42:23:59 CC Gemini VII, Carnarvon CAP COM. 42:24:04 C Good morning, Carnarvon, good morning. VII here. 42:24:09 CC Roger. Gemini VII, good morning from Carnarvon. Everything looks good here on the ground. We have a fuel cell purge coming up this pass and we also have a flight plan update for you. 42:24:19 C Roger. Let me do the fuel cell purge now. My friend here is getting breakfast ready. 42:24:26 CC Roger. 42:25:02 C Okay. We're ready to copy update. The purge has started now. 42:25:26 CC Roger. 42:26:02 CC Okay. The first one I have for you on the flight plan update is a Node. Time: 43:04:07; Remarks, Rev 27; longitude 99.0 degrees west; 12:58:24, right ascension. The next update: Time, 43:10:00; Sequence 01; transponder test at Antigua; turn off at 32:18:00. The last item: Time, 43:58:00; flight plan update at Carnarvon; Rev 28; D-5 check procedure to be given over States pass. Do you copy? 42:26:27 C On that last update you just want us to check with D-5, or check with you on D-5? They're going to give us the word over the States. Is that what you mean? 42:26:35 CC That's affirmative. The procedure will be given to you over the States.
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.