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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 04:26:12 CC Okay. This is 20 pounds. Two zero pounds of propellant more than nominal predicted for this time. However, Perigee Adjust was two three, 23 feet per second greater than nominal. Therefore, we're right on the profile for actual mission activity. 04:26:32 C Roger. Understand. We're right on the profile. 04:26:34 CC Roger. And your new orbit is 120 by 174. 04:26:42 C Roger. Understand. 120 by 174 and our OAMS is right on the money. 04:26:47 CC There you go. 04:27:18 C Hawaii, this is Gemini VII. 04:27:20 CC Go ahead, Gemini VII. 04:27:22 C Roger. We have requested a change in crew status reports to delay the one at 4:40. Will you assure that Houston knows about that? 04:27:28 CC I'll check on that. 04:28:44 CC Gemini VII, Hawaii. 04:28:46 C Go ahead Hawaii, Gemini VII. 04:28:48 CC Are you saying you want to get this crew status delayed to a later time? 04:28:51 C That's Roger. 04:28:53 CC About how long do you want to have it delayed? 04:28:55 C Till the next... 04:28:59 CC Roger. 04:29:02 C ... 04:29:08 CC Okay. Okay, they'll take care of that for you. 04:29:10 C Thank you. ## 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.