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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.
“Lovell”20 pages
## CONFIDENTIAL 95:03:59 C T/M, REAL-TIME and ACQ. 95:04:01 CC Okay. We've got it. Will you turn your adapter C-Band to CONTINUOUS, please? 95:04:07 C Set C-Band on CONTINUOUS. 95:04:11 CC Okay. At elapsed time of 95 hours, 16 minutes, 00 seconds we would like you to turn your adapter C-Band switch to COMMAND. This will allow ... to track you. 95:04:32 C Understand that 95:16:00, adapter C-Band to COMMAND. Is that correct? 95:04:38 CC That's affirmative. 95:04:40 C Roger. 95:04:43 CC Also I have some information for you about the MSC-4. 95:04:49 C Roger. Go ahead. 95:04:51 CC MSC-4 has been scrubbed. White Sands will bring up their equipment and track you. If you see it, go ahead, but don't use a lot of fuel because it's a good long way away from you on this pass. 95:05:12 C ... Understand MSC-4 has been scrubbed but we will look for the beam. 95:05:17 CC Roger. 95:05:21 CC Weather is pretty bad also, VII. 95:05:25 C Understand. 95:05:28 CC We have you solid on the ground. Before LOS, we'll have Elliot come up, tell you when to turn your T/M switch back to COMMAND. 95:05:43 C Roger. 95:10:56 CC Gemini VII, Carnarvon. 95:10:58 P Go ahead, Carnarvon. ## 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.