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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 to launch Gemini VI on the eighth or ninth day will have to be made. If the decision is to launch Gemini VI on the eighth day, a Circularization Maneuver will be made at that time. The approximate GET equals 5 days. This will give us two launch windows on the eighth day and one window on the ninth and tenth days. If the decision is made to launch Gemini VI on the ninth day, the Circularization Maneuver will be delayed until approximately 7 1/2 elapsed days. This will allow the launch windows per the preflight normal, nominal flight plan. You got that? 56:09:40 C Got you. Thank you very much. 56:09:42 CC Okay. 56:09:44 C Ask him what's going on in the world. 56:09:47 CC Nothing much; it's dark down here. 56:09:50 C It's dark up here too. We've got aluminum foil over the windows. We're just about ready to settle down for a sleep. 56:09:57 CC Sounds like you're getting ready for Christmas. 56:28:56 P Okay. 56:28:58 C Okay. We have 30 seconds to go. 56:31:35 C Boy ... 56:31:51 P Okay. Turn dump off. 56:31:52 C Two thoughts occurred to us to help future flights. Number 1 - we are using a small piece of tape to mark our next activity in the flight plan right above the panel clock. This reminds us of what the next activity is going to be without looking in our flight book. Number 2 - we think you ought to color the covers of the log and experiments procedures book differently so you can pick them without having to guess what book it is and then have to read it later on. 66:11:44 P ... 66 plus 00. We're starting breakfast at Day 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.