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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.
“Borman”20 pages
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77:14:19 P Roger. Time is 77:14, about - say around zero seconds. 77:14. Huge fire on the ground. We're recording this on IR. 77:14:24 P Did you get it ...? 77:14:25 C Yes ... 77:14:26 P Okay. The sun's coming up ... 77:14:28 C All right. 77:14:31 C Mark at the end of it at 77:14:31. 77:14:33 P Powering down. 77:14:34 C Yes. ... 77:14:44 C We have - you weren't transmitting that anyway. You were using the recorder, weren't you? 77:14:55 P I put the transmitter recorder on. 77:14:57 C ACQ-AID beacon was on ... 77:15:00 P No. 77:15:02 C ... 77:15:11 P Okay. Let me get a record here on D-4/D-7. Got the log book? 77:15:14 C I have it right here. 77:15:19 C ... 77:15:28 P Here it is. 77:15:33 P Just as a matter of comment: The screens on the exit hoses of the suits were a good idea because they act as sort of a vacuum cleaner. Mine does. My extension hose does - the right-hand side and we don't have to clean up the cockpit that way. COASTAL SENTRY QUEBEC 77:33:39 CC Gemini VII, CSQ.
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.