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

· 341 pages · text by OCR

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.

  • p. 82 …The photometer could never go RED, it stayed GREEN all the time, and we had to…
  • p. 106 …photometer would never be RED. We'd always have it GREEN. We'd have the scale…
  • p. 290 …so high and so faint that we never could get a really good shot at it…
## CONFIDENTIAL

Do you read? Over.

95:51:39	C7	Roger. Read you loud and clear, Gemini VI. Go ahead.
95:51:46	C7	Gemini VI, this is Gemini VII. We read you. Go ahead.
95:51:52	C6	Gemini VII, Gemini VI. We do not read you. We'll come up and look her over and see how we hear you then.
95:52:05	C7	Gemini VI, this is Gemini VII. How do you read?
95:52:12	CC	Apparently they're not reading you, VII.
95:52:15	C7	Okay. We read them.
95:52:17	CC	Roger.
95:52:19	C7	Not too loud and clear, but we read them.
95:52:21	C6	VII, Roger. We do not read. We read you, Flight and CAP COM.
95:52:29	C6	Very good. We'll get a little closer range next time.

## HOUSTON

95:52:52 CC Gemini VII, Houston.

95:52:55 P Go ahead, VII, or Houston.

95:52:58 CC CM3 says you're just now passing his retro time.

95:53:04 P Roger. That figures.

95:53:15 CC CM3 also reports they did not have to stop at Brookley on the way back.

95:53:21 P Roger. We might have to.

95:53:24 CC Place your Tape Playback switch to COMMAND.

## CONFIDENTIAL

Cases discussed

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