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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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## CONFIDENTIAL ## TANANARIVE 03:43:49 CC Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. 03:43:52 P Hello Houston, Gemini VII. 03:43:55 CC Roger. We're standing by for your burn. No special information. 03:46:50 CC Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. We're coming up on 1 minute till your burn. 03:46:55 C Roger. 03:46:58 CC Mark 1 minute till burn. 03:47:02 C Roger. 03:49:30 C Houston, how do you read? Gemini VII. 03:49:32 CC Loud and clear, Gemini VII. 03:49:34 C Roger. The burn is completed; we were interrupted for about 2 seconds in the middle but we burned for one plus one seven. 03:49:43 CC Understand you burned for one plus one seven. The burn was interrupted for a couple seconds but you did burn a total of 1 plus 17. 03:49:54 C That's Roger and we hit something during the burn. 03:50:01 CC Understand you hit something during the burn. 03:50:08 C Houston, this is Gemini VII. During the burn something came far to the right of the window. It looked like a strap or piece of paper, or something of that nature. 03:50:22 CC Understand something came by the right window, like a piece of tape. 03:50:29 P Roger. It looked like a strap of some sort and I believe it was attached to the spacecraft. 03:50:36 CC Like a piece of strap from the spacecraft?
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.