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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 ## GUAYMAS 04:37:12 CC Gemini VII, Guaymas CAP COM. 04:37:15 C Go ahead Guaymas, Gemini VII. 04:37:17 CC Roger. Everything looks good here on the ground. 04:37:20 C Roger. Thank you. We're in the process of getting shipshape here for 14 days. 04:37:26 CC Roger. Understand. We have nothing for you this pass. We'll be standing by. 04:37:30 C Thank you. ## HOUSTON 04:42:32 CC Gemini VII, Gemini VII. Houston CAP COM. How do you read? Over. 04:42:36 P This is VII. Read you loud and clear, Houston. 04:42:49 CC Roger, Jim, reading you loud and clear. I've got a few questions on this strap I'd like to ask you and then we'll forget about it. Was the - was it a strap or was it a tape such as a reflective tape? 04:42:58 P Houston, this is Gemini VII; you were cut out completely; say again. 04:43:02 CC Roger, Gemini VII. I've got a few questions on this strap you saw at the window during your burn and I'll ask them and then we can forget about it. Was it a strap or was it possibly some tape such as reflective tape? 04:43:19 P This is VII. It was hard to tell. It was at nighttime. It looked like the strap might have been tape but it came forward and slapped on the front of the spacecraft. Just now we saw the shadow of the tape on the nose. The nose is in the sunlight and the shadow went on by, but I can't tell from the shadow what it was. CONFIDENTIAL
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.