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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.
“Mission Control”2 pages
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## CONFIDENTIAL relate it to anything while we're working. 71:54:40 CC Roger. 71:55:50 CC Frank, that burn worked out real well. Real pleased to see that you were able to do that well with the platform down. 71:55:57 C Roger. You gave us the right stars; you can't miss. 71:56:02 CC How about the pitch reference? Do you feel you need any - do you feel that's any problem at all? 71:56:08 C Nothing. 71:56:09 CC I say, do you feel that the pitch reference is any problem? 71:56:14 C Pitch is no problem. 71:56:15 CC Okay. 71:56:17 C As a matter of fact, the moon is so bright, we can even pick up ... at night on the clouds below. 71:56:22 C Roger. 71:57:33 CC Gemini VII, Houston. Do you know roughly what the time left on your D-4 recorder is? 71:57:55 C 17 minutes and 20 seconds are elapsed, but if you want to we can play it back. 71:58:00 CC Roger. Have you seen any Aurora on your night passes? 71:58:07 C Negative. 71:58:09 CC Roger. 71:58:10 C No meteors either. Just quite a bit of fires over Africa and a lot of thunderstorms over the Amazon. 71:58:18 CC Roger. # 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.