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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 46:34:07 CC Roger. 46:35:04 P Spacecraft TR lags by 375 milliseconds. 46:35:08 CC Say again. 46:35:10 P Spacecraft TR lagging the ground by 375 milliseconds. 46:35:49 CC VII, Canaries. 46:35:52 C Go ahead, Gemini VII. 46:35:53 C Roger. 46:35:54 CC We'd like to change the time on your D-4/D-7 experiment. The one you have listed as 47:55:31. We'd like you to change that time to 47:55:37. 46:36:11 C Roger. D-4/D-7, Sequence 430, is now 47:55:37. 46:36:18 CC Affirmative. 46:36:27 C Canaries, this is VII. Can you give us an idea how the transponder worked out over the Cape? 46:36:34 CC Stand by. 46:37:06 CC VII, Canaries. We will have an answer for you momentarily. You can turn off the Quantity Read switch if you like. 46:37:12 C Roger. We'd like also to turn off the transponder. 46:37:15 CC Roger. Stand by. 46:37:26 CC Flight says Carnarvon. 46:37:29 C Roger. 46:38:43 CC VII, this is Canary. We're about to lose you pretty soon now. We'll probably give you a report over Carnarvon on that transponder test over the Cape. 46:38:50 C Roger. We'll stand by. 46:51:13 P We weren't transmitting. ... Okay. We're now lining up on D-4/D-7. 414 lining on Betelgeuse in a RAD position for 3 minutes.
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.