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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 ## CANARY ISLANDS 44:59:40 CC Gemini VII, Canary on UHF. 44:59:42 C Go ahead, Canary, Gemini VII. 44:59:45 CC Roger. In regard to the Cryo usages so far, all the cryogenics right now are normal. In fact, there's more than we expected at this time in all three quantities, but it's pretty hard to anticipate end-of-flight residuals at this time. 45:00:04 C Okay. Thank you. 45:00:05 CC You're welcome. 45:00:56 C Canary, this is Gemini VII. 45:00:57 CC Go ahead. 45:00:59 C Would you ask Houston if we could skip the - or postpone the crew status report on the Pilot? He's going to go ahead and take his suit off, but he would like about an hour to do it and if we skip the next one, that would give him time. 45:01:09 CC Stand by. 45:01:51 CC VII, Canary. 45:01:53 C Go ahead. 45:01:54 CC Roger. Flight gives a GO. You can skip that crew status report on the Pilot. 45:02:00 C Okay. Thank you. Jim is going to take his suit off now. 45:02:02 CC Okay. 45:02:05 CC Keep us informed as much as possible on your status and his status. 45:03:44 C ... 45:03:57 C Jim is trying to remove his suit now, at 45:03. ## CONFIDENTIAL
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.