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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.
## CONFIDENTIAL 71:46:43 CC Okay. 71:46:50 CC When it's convenient, I'd like to run over the systems real quick here with you. 71:46:55 C Okay. Stand by a minute, please. 71:47:23 CC Gemini VII. You have a TX coming up in about 30 seconds. 71:47:27 C Thank you. 71:48:01 P The weather - we're right over Laredo now - may be good next pass; it's just very high ... 71:48:08 CC Roger, VII. We'll give it a try next time if we can get it set up. 71:48:13 P All right. 71:48:20 CC Got your book out yet? 71:48:22 C Say again. 71:48:24 CC Got your book out yet? 71:48:26 C Stand by just a minute, please. 71:48:37 C Smile, Elliot. 71:48:40 CC Are you ready? 71:48:42 C We're taking your picture. 71:48:43 CC Oh, okay. 71:49:04 CC That's all we have down here is smiles, Frank. 71:49:07 C Roger, Chris. Boy, is it ever clear today. We're right over Houston now. The Astrodome sticks out like a sore thumb. We can see the whole works. 71:49:15 CC Roger. 71:49:27 CC Can you associate the music, the HF reception, with the day-night cycles at all, or has it been generally good all the way around?
Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 341 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.