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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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## 126 CONFIDENTIAL 45:07:29 C I don't believe so, not at the present time. It's pretty warm in here. 45:07:33 CC Roger. 45:07:38 CC I'd like also to tell you, Frank, that we're very pleased with the OAMS quantity progress. You're finally being very stingy with the fuel and it looks real good. 45:07:51 C Fine. Thank you. 45:08:12 CC Sounds like you're receiving very well there. If you'd like, I could start giving you some of these news items or we can wait till your next US pass. 45:08:21 C Go ahead, I'll listen happily. Okay. President DeGaulle received only 44 percent of the vote, pushing him into a run-off election for the French presidency. He is expected to win in a run-off, however. In Vietnam, the US troops had a clash with the Communists in an estimated regiment strength in a new battle at Michelin Rubber Plantation. The Soviet scientists are to attempt a soft landing on the moon with Luna 8 this afternoon. Here's an item about Gemini VII. It says: "Astronauts Borman and Lovell report all is well aboard their Gemini VII." You know anything about that? And Gemini VI launch preparations are still running ahead of schedule and the crew is ready for their launch - for their rendezvous attempt. Local news is that Secret Service agents arrested a former printer in Houston and seized 1 1/4 million dollars in counterfeit 20-dollar bills. How did you read? 45:09:42 C Read you loud and clear. I wondered where Chris got all that money down at the Cape. 45:09:51 CC Big spender from Houston! 45:09:52 CC I'm going to get some more of it, too. 45:09:59 C Jim is still proceeding with his suit removal. He is getting all his clothes off and so on now. 45:10:04 CC Roger. ## 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.