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Gemini VII Air-to-Ground Transcript Volume I: 5011500_VolumeI

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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.

  • p. 123 …Can you give us a report on what the projected mission completion Cryo quantities will be…
  • p. 222 …This is your Panel Controller standing by. You need not acknowledge. 74:47:07 P Thank…

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43:23:42	CC	Roger. Did you copy the flight plan completely on this date?
43:23:46	C	I believe so. We're transposing it onto our flight plan now.
43:23:50	CC	Okay. The last two items were the MSC-2 and 3 and the D-4/D-7.
43:23:55	C	I did not get the last of D-4/D-7.
43:23:58	CC	Okay. Ready to copy?
43:24:01	C	Roger. Ready to copy.
43:24:03	CC	Okay. D-4/D-7: 49:46:00; Sequence 406; Mode 02; cold IR off. I have one more item: 50:00:00; exercise period.
43:24:46	C	Canary, VII.
43:24:48	CC	Go.
43:24:49	C	We have copied that and Houston asked about taking off the suit. Tell them that he'll be glad to take off the suit at their command during the time period because it will require some time to do it.
43:25:01	CC	Okay. In the event that you do this - why - we'd like you to keep us informed on your status and how you feel - as much as you can, keep us informed.
43:25:14	C	Will do.
43:25:20	CC	At your discretion, you can take the suit off. It's your choice.
43:25:26	C	Roger. Understand.
CARNARVON
44:01:00	C	I'm calling Carnarvon. This is Gemini VII.
44:01:03	CC	Roger. You ready for this block update?

## CONFIDENTIAL

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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.