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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 M-C, D-3 M-C. Neither of us have had any more sleep than previously reported. 52:38:10 CC Roger, Gemini VII. We copy the report. Surgeon out. 52:38:14 CC Gemini VII, this is Houston CAP COM. I've got some information on Luna 8 if you'd like it. 52:38:20 C Roger. What's Luna 8? 52:38:22 CC Luna 8 is the Russian soft landing on the Moon which was launched on Friday. The signal ceased at 4:51 pm Eastern Standard Time and Sir Bernard Lovell, Observatory Director, said the rocket is undoubtedly on the lunar surface but whether it made a soft landing or smashed itself we do not know. The comment from Radio Moscow is "No comment". 52:38:47 C Thank you. 52:38:49 CC And we'd like you to elaborate on your flight plan daily flight plan report - and give us the scores of the vision test, your approximate film usage and give us an account whether M-7 has been going okay. 52:39:09 P Roger, Gene. Do you want that stuff now? 52:39:11 CC No. You can give it to us with the flight plan report, Jim, and that will be a UHF 6 pass. 52:39:19 P Roger. 52:43:15 P I want the whole thing when I tell you. 52:43:17 C Right. 52:43:18 P These are the following readings of the D-9 pass: ... stop watch, 33.9; digital clock, 51:17:30; sextant, 30.6.864 - 30.864 at the minimum.. Stop watch, 22.2; digital, 51 plus 21 plus 00; sextant, 11.06. Stop watch, 35.48; digital, 51:23:30; sextant, 10:02 ... I believe that was the wrong star though. I couldn't find that one. Stop watch, 23.5; digital, 51 plus 27 plus 00; sextant 24.077. ... Stop watch, 26.8; digital, 51 plus 30 plus 00; sextant 36.072. ... Stop watch, 21.5; ## 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.