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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 68:41:51 CC D-4/D-7: 71:47:26; Sequence 419; Mode 02. Time: 72:00:00; exercise period. Stand by for a TR update coming up. 68:42:23 P Roger. Received. 68:42:24 CC Roger. Time: 72:10:00; eating period. Apollo Landmark: 73:08:40; Sequence 234; Mode 01; pitch 30 degrees down, yaw 2 degrees right. D-4/D-7: 73:08:40; Sequence 420; Mode 02. Do you copy? 68:43:08 P Roger. 68:43:10 CC S-8/D-13: 73:22:20; Sequence 02; pitch 30 degrees down, yaw 1 degree right; closest approach, 73:22:20. MSC-2 and 3: 73:40:00; Sequence 02; off at 89:00:00. Do you copy? 68:43:51 P Roger. Have copied. 68:43:53 CC Jim, I want to interrupt here and give you the pad update on the maneuver load, just in case we run out of time here. 68:44:02 P Roger. 68:44:05 CC Let me know when you're ready to copy. 68:44:11 P Copy. 68:44:16 CC Say you're ready, Gemini VII? 68:44:17 P Gemini VII is ready. 68:44:19 CC GET of the burn: 69:43:19; Delta-V, 12.4; burn time, 16.5 seconds; yaw zero, pitch zero; aft thrusters; maneuver, Posigrade. And we will update this over Carnarvon if required. Do you copy? 68:44:52 P Roger. GET is 69:43:19; Delta-V, 12.4; Delta-P, 16.5 seconds; yaw and pitch are zero; aft thrusters; Posigrade; declining star. Over. 68:45:07 CC Roger. Here's the information on the star. You'll be SEF, and you'll be just coming out of the dark at this time, as a matter of fact. Your track or your pointing should pass just about halfway between
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