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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 We would like you to tape-record, with your onboard recorder, your thoughts on the stationkeeping task which you did. 44:53:16 P Will do. 44:53:20 CC On your next pass, I'll give you a report on the news. 44:53:23 P Thank you. 44:53:27 CC Okay. Should be receiving some music pretty quickly. The stationkeeping task was, I thought, relatively easy. The one thing that complicated it, in this case, was the venting booster. It was receiving continuous Delta-V from quite a large vent on the autoxinous line. We came off the booster, just as planned, drove up - pitched up rather - 180 degrees, fired back to the booster for approximately 5 seconds, the way we practiced in the simulations, and I thought that the sumulations and the actual event were very, very, close together. The task we're not able to use the platform forward because of the fact that the booster ended up a little bit above us and when we put it in platform, the spacecraft started to pitch down out of view of the booster, so then went to pulse and, finally, in some cases, I had to go to direct in order to get back to the booster. From then on, it was relatively simple to stay in there. I think, with a stabilized vehicle, it should be a task of no great concern. However, the continual pulsing of the booster plus the continual venting of the booster, plus its rolling, made it a little bit fuel-consuming. I would estimate that we went within 100 to 50 feet of the vehicle most of the time. 44:53:48 CC Are you receiving the music yet? 44:54:07 CC Gemini VII, the music should be coming up pretty quickly. ## 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.