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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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01:43:37 CC Roger. 01:43:50 CC Gemini VII, is that the booster or is that an actual sighting? 01:43:55 C ... 01:43:59 CC Say again, VII. 01:44:01 C Said ... we have several - looks like ... actual sighting. 01:44:05 CC Do you have any more information, estimated distance, or size? 01:44:11 C We also have the booster in sight. 01:44:14 CC Understand you also have the booster in sight. Roger. 01:44:17 C ... there are very many - looks like hundreds of little particles going by from the left out about 3 or 4 miles. 01:44:33 CC Understand you have many small particles going by on the left. At what distance? 01:44:40 C ... looks like... 01:44:48 CC Roger. Understand they're about 3 or 4 miles away? 01:44:52 C They're past now; they're in a polar orbit. 01:44:55 CC Roger. And understand they were about 3 to 4 miles away? 01:45:00 C That's what it appeared like, or further. 01:45:03 CC Roger. 01:45:04 CC Gemini VII, Houston. Were these particles in addition to the booster and the bogey at 10:00 o'clock high? 01:45:25 C ... 01:45:28 CC Roger. ## 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.