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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.
“Tananarive”11 pages
## CONFIDENTIAL 03:14:35 CC That's a low blow! 03:16:22 CC Gemini VII, Houston. Would you place your ECS Quantity - your Quantity Read switch to the ECS O2 position for approximately 15 seconds? 03:16:32 C Roger. ECS O2 switch position. 03:17:38 CC Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. 03:17:41 C Yes, Houston. Gemini VII. 03:17:44 CC The pointing command for Spica would be 12 degrees pitch up, 8 degrees yaw right. So that shows you how close it is for pointing. 03:18:14 CC Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. Do you read? 03:18:27 CC Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM broadcasting in the blind. We have very rough signal with you at the present time. Confirming that Spica is a good pointing - pointing reference for you on your burn. 03:18:44 C I understand, Spica. 03:18:45 CC Roger. Spica is very close. 03:18:48 P Did you receive my message about the booster light still blinking? 03:18:52 CC Negative. 03:18:54 P ... still blinking. 03:18:58 CC Say again, Gemini VII. We read you pretty good now. 03:19:02 P I say: the booster is in front of us and the light's still blinking. 03:19:05 CC Roger. Booster in front of you and light still blinking. ## 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.