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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 97:25:53 CC It also turned out that, if we decide not to go for the eighth day and go for the ninth, the maneuver comes out in the middle of your sleep period. We're probably going to reshape that thing so we do two sets of maneuvers; one before you go to sleep, and one after you wake up. 97:26:12 P That's very considerate. 97:26:16 CC And the way we're going to do this thing is do two maneuvers. We'll bring up perigee and then bring down apogee within the fuel budget we have. 97:26:27 P Roger. 97:26:37 CC Gemini VII, you have a Tx coming up in about half a minute. 97:26:41 P Roger. Is that the finish of the flight plan update? 97:26:46 CC Negative. I've just a little bit more here. 97:27:12 P I've received the Tx. 97:27:17 CC Roger. VII. And for your information, if we don't circularize tomorrow - if we go for a Monday launch - we will be circularizing you on Sunday. 97:27:30 P Roger. 97:27:33 CC Are you ready to copy these additional instructions for the Test Number 3? 97:27:38 C All right. Stand by. 97:27:44 P Go ahead. 97:27:47 CC When you try to calibrate on this test, if you get no calibration, here are the instructions. If reticle stays GREEN, put a hand over the objective lens and see if the color changes. If the reticle stays RED, remove the day filter leaving the photometer in the DAY position, and try to calibrate on the water. Do you copy? ## 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.