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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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49:24:38 CC Roger. The wind is from the north so there is smoke along the south border, and your pass will be 40 miles north of the site. The weather is very clear. 49:24:50 C Roger. 49:26:41 C Houston, this is Gemini VII. We got it. 49:26:45 CC Go ahead. 49:26:52 C It's 3. The second one is a 1. The fifth one is a 3. I can't read the rest of them. 49:26:59 CC Roger. 49:27:12 CC Jim make any readings? 49:27:14 C No, Jim didn't acquire it that time. 49:27:16 CC Roger. Understand you're the only one that acquired and you called the first one as a 3, the next one as a 1, and you couldn't make any more readings. 49:27:26 C Third one was a 3 also, and I couldn't read any after that. 49:27:29 CC The first one was a 3, the second one a 1, and the third one a 3. 49:27:35 C Right. 49:27:37 CC Is that correct? 49:27:38 C Say again. 49:27:40 CC You read a three, one, three. Is that correct? 49:27:44 C It's correct. 49:27:45 CC Roger. And were you just not able to make out anything further than that, or were you just not able to see the square well enough? 49:27:53 C Well, we couldn't see the squares very well. There's not much contrast down there now. ## 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.