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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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47:52:56 C Very good ones, I hope. 47:52:58 CC Excellent! We weren't sure you'd have enough time before the D-4 so we didn't tell you about that. 47:54:03 C Houston, this is VII. There have been some clouds move in here just in the time we've been around. 47:54:08 CC Roger. We've got 1 plus 30 to go. 47:54:12 C Roger. 47:54:37 CC MARK. One minute. 47:54:40 C Roger. 47:55:28 CC 10 seconds. 47:55:58 C We've got her! She's beautiful! 47:56:00 CC Very good! 47:56:13 C Hey, hey! I didn't know they were shooting that thing! 47:56:18 CC Something I forgot to tell you, Frank. Another aerospace first! Sorry about that, Chief. 47:56:30 C It's easy to track; we're right on it. 47:56:33 CC Roger. 47:56:40 C Staging. 47:56:43 CC Roger. Staging. 47:56:52 CC Gemini VII, do you have guidance initiate? 47:56:57 C Roger. Manual control. 47:57:20 CC Gemini VII, did you see a nose fairing separation? 47:57:24 C Saw it. 47:57:42 P Powered down. 47:57:46 C Okay. ## 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.