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Gemini VII Air-to-Ground Transcript Volume I: 5011500_VolumeI

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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.

  • p. 148 …Clouds are about as represented, only white doesn't show in the photograph and the grays…
  • p. 332 …a little bit later of a greenish gray color. Would you agree, Frank? 116:03:11…

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Time	Commander	Message
47:46:21	CC	Roger. We have you GO on the ground. Everything looks real good. We have nothing for you. We are standing by.
47:46:25	P	...
TEXAS
47:49:32	CC	Gemini VII, Houston.
47:49:35	P	This is VII. Go ahead.
47:49:36	CC	Roger. We're standing by for your D-4. We have nothing special this pass. The D-4 is still on schedule.
47:49:46	P	Roger. D-4 on schedule. We're all set to go.
47:49:60	CC	For your information, the possible activity on the 38th revolution will not take place and so you'll have an uninterrupted sleep period tonight.
47:50:12	C	Roger.
47:52:26	C	Hey, Houston! We're right over you!
47:52:30	CC	Hello there!
47:52:33	P	Hey, Elliot!
47:52:34	CC	Go ahead.
47:52:36	P	Tell Conrad to get his kids off my roof!
47:52:40	CC	He's out of town now.
47:52:43	C	We got some very good pictures, Houston. It was as clear as a bell. They see the Astrodome - the whole works.
47:52:49	CC	You say you got some pictures on this pass?
47:52:52	C	Right over you.
47:52:54	CC	You able to get some pictures this pass?

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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.