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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.
## CONFIDENTIAL 50:19:00 C 62 percent. 50:19:02 P 62 percent? 50:19:03 C Yes. 50:19:04 P We are reading about 62 percent. 50:19:05 CC Roger. Copy 62 percent. 50:19:10 CC That's about all we have for you here this pass. We'll be standing by. 50:19:17 P Roger. 50:19:24 P Oh, I know. I know. 50:19:36 ... 50:19:43 ... 50:24:38 C I can't help it; it's either that or ... 50:26:02 P Squirt some in the bag, too. ... 50:26:32 C We just had a standby. There are so many factors. 50:30:50 P The bag couldn't get any smaller. 50:30:59 C How's that? Pretty good. 50:31:04 C ... how do you mean ... Son of a gun! Here. ... Hang on. Hang on ... ## HAWAII 50:44:02 CC Gemini VII, Hawaii CAP COM. We're standing by. We have you GO. 50:44:27 P This is VII. Roger. Head you loud and clear. 50:44:31 CC Roger, Gemini VII. Standing by. 50:57:14 P Pretty cloudy though, isn't it, Frank? 50:57:26 C Got a pitch landing.
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.