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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 47:57:51 C What's on the flight plan next? We ought to record that. 47:57:52 P Yes. 47:57:54 P Did you have that on record? 47:57:56 C No, I didn't. I wish we would. 47:57:58 C Okay. For the record: D-4/D-7; 430 went off perfectly. 47:58:10 CC Gemini VII, did you observe the separation? 47:58:15 P Negative. It went into the clouds as we kept on tracking it and it was just a white, long background. 47:58:23 CC Roger. 47:58:30 C Okay. What else do you want to say about it, Jim? 47:58:32 P Oh, ... The record - we identified the pass at 4:30 and it was very easy to spot out of the blue water. 47:58:42 C It was very easy to spot and very easy to track. 47:58:44 CC Gemini VII, understand you completed tracking. Is that correct? 47:58:48 P That is affirmative. 47:58:49 CC Roger. 47:58:50 P Okay. Let me get some pictures here. 47:58:58 C The time was right on the given time. What was it? 47:59:01 CC Roger. 47:59:03 P 55:37, wait. 47:5... 47:59:07 C 47:55:37. 47:59:09 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.