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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.
## CONFIDENTIAL 112:12:45 P 86 percent and 580. 112:12:48 CC Okay. We have a flight plan update for you. 112:12:52 P Okay. Stand by. 112:13:06 P Go ahead. 112:13:07 CC Okay. Time: 111:52:35; Rev 71; 75.6 degrees west; 11 hours 32 minutes 51 seconds; right ascension. Flight plan Time line update: change 11 to 00 to 112:17. We may have LOS and in the event we do, we will continue later on. 112:13:47 P ... 112:13:49 CC 113:40:00: PLA update at Canary. 114:16:00: crew status report on Command Pilot at Carnarvon. You copy? 112:16:04 P We're over Canary here. 112:16:06 C ... strange, no, no it isn't... 112:16:49 P We must be ... over southern Africa. 112:30:47 C One comment here on these meals: we are going on relatively normal. Just a day. I think it would be better to plan our meals so we don't have anything but peas and shrimp - peas and salad for breakfast. 112:30:56 P I concur. CARNARVON 112:42:58 CC Gemini VII, Carnarvon. 112:43:03 C Go ahead, Carnarvon. Gemini VII. 112:43:05 CC Roger. We'd like to have you turn your Cryo Gaging switch to the OFF position, please. 112:43:09 C All right.
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.