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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.
“Headquarters”1 page
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## CONFIDENTIAL 69:30:31 C Roger. Stand by. 69:30:40 C At 77 hours, it should read 55 percent. 69:30:44 CC That's right. At 77 hours and 30 minutes it should read 55 percent. 69:30:51 CC That's after your flight plan completion. 69:31:53 C Go ahead, Carnarvon, with the deletions. 69:31:55 CC Roger. At 70:10:32, delete Apollo Landmark. That is because of weather. 69:32:17 C Okay. We copied. 69:32:18 CC Roger. We're standing by. 69:32:21 C Give me a time hack, please. 69:32:23 CC Roger. SGET time hack will be 69 hours 32 minutes and 35 seconds on my Mark. 69:32:34 CC MARK. 69:32:35 C Put her right on. 69:32:36 CC Roger. 69:47:56 C Okay. We accomplished a burn right on time and burned for 16 and 1/2 seconds. Used the ... and the lines on the window to establish our attitude. Everything looks good. 69:49:04 P Okay. At 69:49:00: I took a picture of a satellite moving below us. 69:49:07 C What direction? 69:49:11 P Approximately same direction. I'm not sure now whether it was a satellite. Maybe it's a big piece of ... from our own spacecraft. I have a picture of it, anyway. 69:49:23 C What was the magazine?
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.