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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.
“Borman”20 pages
## CONFIDENTIAL 01:37:25 C This is VII. Stand by, please. 01:37:27 CC Roger. 01:37:55 C Go ahead. We're ready to copy. 01:37:57 CC Roger. 01:37:58 CC Time: 02:42:32; Rev 2; 160.8 degrees east; 13:49:41, right ascension. Do you copy? 01:38:09 C Roger. Node at Time 2 plus 42 plus 32. Rev 2, 160.8 degrees east; 13 plus 49 plus 41, right ascension. 01:38:24 CC That's correct, Gemini VII. 01:39:06 CC Gemini VII, Houston. We'd like to make a Com check with you now if it's a convenient time. 01:39:16 C This is VII. Roger. 01:39:28 CC This is Houston standing by for your call. 01:39:56 C Gemini on UHF Number 2. How do you read? Over. 01:39:59 CC I read you loud and clear on UHF Number 2. How me? 01:40:03 C Roger. Read you loud and clear. 01:40:05 CC Roger. You want to check out the HF also? 01:40:08 C Roger. We'll check out the HF. Stand by a second. 01:40:12 CC Thank you. 01:41:06 C Roger, VII; have you on UHF. 01:43:17 C Gemini VII here. Houston, how do you read? 01:43:20 CC Loud and clear, VII. Go ahead. 01:43:23 C I have a bogey at 10:00 o'clock high. 01:43:31 CC This is Houston. Say again, VII. 01:43:34 C Said we have a bogey at 10:00 o'clock high.
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.