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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.
“Borman”20 pages
44:04:41 CC Flight said it might be a good idea if you send it on down so we can fix it and then we'll send it back up to you all fixed. 44:04:49 C Sounds like a good idea. 44:04:51 CC Right. 44:04:52 C ... you could send it up with VIII. 44:04:54 CC Ha! Ha! Ha! Okay. 44:04:56 C If we could figure a way to get it down to you, we would, believe me! 44:05:00 CC Right. TEXAS 44:41:13 CC Gemini VII, Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. How do you read? 44:41:19 P This is VII. Loud and clear. 44:41:23 CC Gemini VII, reading you slightly garbled. How do you read? 44:41:27 P This is VII reading Houston loud and clear, loud and clear. 44:41:31 CC Roger. Read you much better now. Like to advise this will be a UHF 6 pass. 44:41:40 P Roger. UHF 6 ... Frank has ... 44:41:47 CC Roger. Tell him to keep it there. We do not have it yet. 44:41:52 P Roger. 44:42:13 CC Jim, just a minute now. Do you know what the star was that you were checking the D-5 experiment on? 44:42:22 P On the last pass we used several stars. One was Acrux and we used both Alpha and Beta Centauri.
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.