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Gemini VII Air-to-Ground Transcript Volume I: 5011500_VolumeI

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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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“Tananarive”11 pages

  • p. 25 …Remoting through Tananarive. Do you read? 00:37:07 CC Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. Do…
  • p. 36 …Just checking communications through Tananarive. We weren't able to get you last time. We have…
  • p. 45 ## CONFIDENTIAL ## TANANARIVE 03:43:49 CC Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. 03:43:52 P Hello…
  • p. 52 …05:05:30 CC Roger. ## TANANARIVE 05:19:31 CC Gemini VII, Gemini VII, Houston CAP…
  • p. 58 …06:37:47 CC Roger. ## TANANARIVE 06:54:26 CC Gemini VII, Gemini VII, Houston CAP…
  • p. 128 …45:10:49 CC Okay. Thank you. TANANARIVE 45:20:23 CC Gemini VII, Gemini VII…
  • p. 149 …Not too much of it; most of it's in my underwear. ## TANANARIVE 48:27:04…
  • p. 203 …The horizon is completely unavailable with the green filter in. ## TANANARIVE 70:50:15 CC Gemini…
  • p. 276 …95:29:03 P Tananarive, Gemini VII. ## CONFIDENTIAL
  • p. 296 …40:40. ## TANANARIVE 99:40:03 C This is Gemini VII. ... testing 1,2,3,4…
  • p. 302 …54:30 P Oh Roger. Thank you. TANANARIVE 101:09:21 CC Gemini VII, Gemini VII…
## CONFIDENTIAL

94:19:18	C	Roger. We have it.
94:19:21	CC	Step 3: If normal calibration not successful, repeat calibration without depressing Cal button. Track Venus for 15 seconds. Move and count gain wheel turns to maximum. Continue tracking to occultation and report results. Do you copy?
94:19:31	P	Roger. Understand.
94:20:14	C	Roger. Got it.
94:20:15	CC	Caution: Ground equipment tests show that sunlight on the photo tube can have an adverse effect even with the power off. So we'd like to advise you to keep the unit out of the sunlight at all times, or any bright light.
94:20:32	P	Roger. Understand.
94:20:37	CC	Like to advise you that the weather is marginal for your MSC-4 pass on White Sands on the next revolution. We hope to try to get you a weather update on this at Carnarvon so you - we might be able to tell you just not to unstow the gear.
94:20:55	P	Roger. That's a shame. We were looking forward to that one.
94:20:59	P	Roger. ...
94:21:02	CC	Roger. So are we.
94:21:03	P	Where's the ...
94:21:09	P	No, I was looking for the log book ...
94:21:11	CC	That's all I have right now. We're standing by for a completion of the manual tape dump. I'll call you on that in just a minute.
94:21:14	C	Roger.
94:21:17	P	... log book ...
94:21:22	CC	Haven't had a chance to try out that flight suit, have you?

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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.