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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 11:25:01 P ... D-4/D-7 at 10:45:10; recorder running for 30 seconds. That was Ziegler's 411 and ... 11:25:11 C ... 11:21 the D-4/D-7 going off. ACQ-AID Beacon coming on. 11:25:12 C Oh yes. Good! Time Command Message 12:07:17 C CSQ, this is Gemini VII. How do you read? 12:07:19 CC Gemini VII, CSQ CAP COM. Read you loud and clear. 12:07:23 C Roger. Will you tell Houston that we're both catching catnaps now. We'd like to start on a regular schedule, with both of us awake about 8 in the morning, Houston time. 12:07:37 C And we're ready for your updates if you have them. 12:07:41 CC Okay. Stand by one. 12:07:58 CC Gemini VII, CSQ with your updates. Area 10-Delta, Area 10-Delta: 14:15:52; 20 plus 16. Area 11-Delta: 15:52:45; 18 plus 30. Do you copy? 12:08:28 C Roger. I'm getting them. 12:08:29 CC Okay. Area 12-2: 17:28:22; 17 plus 07. Area 13-2: 19:04:52; 15 plus 44. Area 14-1: 20:30:41; 16 plus 33. Area 15-1: 22:06:45; 15 plus 21. Area 16-1: 23:42:05; 14 plus 34. Do you copy? 12:09:32 C Roger. We got them all. 12:09:34 CC Okay. You're scheduled for a fuel cell purge over us, next revolution. 12:09:41 C Okay. We'll be looking for you then. 12:09:43 CC Roger. 12:09:53 C Flight, for your information, the Delta-P light blinked off and then on again around 12 hours.
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.