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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 00:07:35 CC Gemini VII, your orbit is 87 by 178. 00:07:41 C ... orbit is 87 by 178. Roger. 00:07:44 CC Roger. 00:07:45 P Oh, good. 00:07:53 P Now. Booster's third phase. 00:07:55 C Would you get it over here so we could? 00:07:57 C Yes, go ahead. Booster's in third phase. 00:08:03 P Right. Retro rockets 246. 00:08:04 C Safe. 00:08:05 P Okay. Now it's on vertical, but I can't see it just yet. 00:08:07 C I know it. 00:08:12 C Roger. I have it. We're going to have to go off at the - I'm going to DIRECT and ORB RATE. 00:08:13 P Okay. 00:08:14 C So you can take pictures of the thing, Jim? 00:08:24 P Yes. It's right in the sunlight though. 00:08:25 C I know it is. 00:08:26 P Okay. ... -- Come in. 00:08:31 CC Gemini VII, Houston. They're already cleaning off the pad. 00:08:36 C You got it, Jim? 00:08:37 P I have it, but it's in the sun, Frank. 00:08:40 C Yes. 00:08:41 CC Gemini VII, Houston. How is the stationkeeping going? CONFIDENTIAL
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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.