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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 76:59:46 C IR on. 76:59:48 P Right. 76:59:49 C Power on. 76:59:50 P Right. 76:59:52 C Stand by on the transmitters. ACQ-AID beacon is open. Standing by ... 412 ... 76 - correction 77:09 ... We're using the airglow ... and tracking ... Okay. At 77:00 we're stopping ... telemetry ... 77:00:09 P We will attempt now at - what time is it, Frank? 77:00:10 C Almost 09 ... 76:09 or 76 ... 77:00:31 P Okay. We will attempt now at 76:09 to take some night photography, with the high-speed film, of the airglow and the cloud covers beneath it. We fortunately tonight have a practically full moon on the beam, right angles to the method of shooting. 77:08:50 C Listen, you might turn on that transmitter before you ... 77:08:51 P What transmitter? 77:08:55 C D-4/D-7 transmitter. D-4/D-7 transmitter coming on for Sequence 412 at 77:09. 77:09:02 P The first show - leave it on. 77:09:03 C I am. 77:09:12 P Okay. The first shot with high-speed film will be f2.8, 1/2 second. 77:09:26 P The next shot - you want 1 second? 77:09:28 C Yes. 1. 77:09:40 P The next shot, f2.8, 1 second. 77:09:45 P Hold her steady. 77:10:02 P 2 seconds coming up. This will be a time exposure. ## 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.