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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.
“Lovell”20 pages
01:45:29 C Houston, this is VII. 01:45:33 CC Go ahead. 01:45:34 C I have the booster on my side and the brilliant body of the sun against a black background with billions of particles around it. 01:45:43 CC Roger. What direction is it from you? 01:45:56 C It's about 2:00 o'clock position. 01:45:51 CC Does that mean it's ahead of you? 01:45:55 C It's - ahead of us at 2:00 o'clock and it's slowly tumbling. 01:45:59 CC Roger. 01:52:44 P D-4/D-7, D-4/D-7 at 1 plus 52 plus 54; 12 plus 52 plus 34, 2 minutes in void measurements. Void measurement is completed; going to take a measurement on Rigel - take a measurement on Rigel. Stand by for a time. 01:54:30 CC Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. 01:54:33 C Go ahead Houston, Gemini VII. 01:54:35 CC Roger. We're in contact at Ascension. We have no special messages. We're standing by. 01:54:38 C We'll continue our D-4/D-7 on - at this time. 01:54:42 CC Roger. 01:56:55 P D-4/D-7 at 01 plus 56 plus 53; 2 minutes of measurement on Rigel; recorder on. At approximately 1 plus 57 booster is deadahead. 01:57:16 C Thank you. 02:01:20 P Roger. At 2:01:17 we're taking recordings on boosters. This is right near Sirius. Who takes the measurement on the booster? Then it will go right down to Sirius. 2 minutes off the booster and then we're going to 2 minutes on Sirius CONFIDENTIAL
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.