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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 02:51:35 CC All right. We'll be standing by if you need anything. 02:51:36 C Thanks, Hawaii. 02:51:39 C You might tell them we have activated the M-1 experiment. 02:52:00 CC Okay. Will you give me the time that you activated M-1? 02:52:03 P Roger, Hawaii. This is VII. 02:52:12 P Activated M-1 2 plus 39 plus 30. 02:52:17 CC Two plus what? 02:52:20 P 2 plus 39 plus three zero. 02:52:23 CC Okay. I've got that. 02:52:57 P Hawaii, this is VII. 02:52:59 CC Go ahead. 02:53:00 P By my calculations, we have approximately 20 minutes and 10 seconds left on the D-4/D-7 recorder. 02:53:07 CC Roger. Understand. GUAYMAS 03:02:30 CC Gemini VII, Guaymas CAP COM. 03:02:38 P This is VII. Go ahead. 03:02:41 CC Roger. Everything looks good on the ground. Houston will update the maneuver time and the star update that you requested with a new acquisition in Texas. And they will be standing by for your fuel cell purge. 03:02:58 P This is VII. Roger. And be informed we have just spotted the booster ahead and below. Quite aways out. ## 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.