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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.
73:23:40 C No. 73:23:45 P Do you want to roll it? 73:23:47 C Which way? 73:23:48 P Down to your left but I don't think ... 73:23:59 C No, we didn't pick it up, Elliot. There is a cloud - high cloud cover and we missed it. 73:24:05 CC Okay, Frank. 73:24:13 CC That was a real good pass. Right - almost directly over the site, so we thought you might be able to have some luck on that. 73:24:21 C Roger. Well, there are clouds. It's clear everywhere else but right over there. 73:24:26 CC Okay. What control mode did you use during the burn? 73:24:28 C Aztec Sequence, 74:36. We don't see any jet streams here so we're taking some pictures of the unusual cloud formations here. Down there ... We ought to come up with some. Roll them this way so I can get a shot ... Jet stream ... 73:24:32 C RATE COMMAND. 73:24:34 CC RATE COMMAND. Roger. And do you have any non-nominal stowage that you could mention? We're looking into the weight distribution. 73:24:47 C Say again, please. 73:24:48 CC Do you have any non-nominal stowage that you care to report? We have a question in regard to weight distribution. 73:24:59 P No. We're doing everything according to plan so far. 73:25:08 P Stand by just one. 73:25:12 P ... stands out like a sore thumb up there. ## CONFIDENTIAL
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.