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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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50:57:27 C ... water now. Water. ... water ... 50:58:42 P Off. 50:58:43 C Off. 50:58:50 P For your track. 50:58:57 P Yes, you pitched down. You pitched all the way through. 50:58:58 P Well, instead of doing that why don't we just twist around? Twist over. 50:59:04 P No! No! We can't get any more than plus 53.13. ... Just about 14 minutes ... we can't get it on the sextant. 50:59:14 P Let me record this. 50:59:45 C ... pretty far south now ... Jim. 50:59:50 P Yes. 51:00:30 C Turn around, why don't you? 51:00:35 P More desert land. Reading IR, reading desert land. TEXAS 51:01:08 CC Gemini VII, Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. We don't have anything for you here. You're solid GO. 51:01:09 C Thank you. 51:01:21 C Thank you, Houston. Gemini VII, performing the D-4/D-7. 51:01:25 CC Roger, Houston. 51:01:30 P Keep the ... running now until I get this beach here. 51:01:38 P Okay. Now going to land to water. Water. Okay, that's enough ## 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.