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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.
“Nevers”3 pages
21:01:53 C Roger. 21:01:54 CC At 23:52:00 you receive your GO/NO-GO for 31-1 over Texas. 21:02:09 C Roger. Thank you. 21:02:11 CC Okay. What's the status of your helmets and gloves? You traveling with them on or off? 21:02:17 C They have been off since we got the GO for ... 21:02:20 CC Roger. 21:02:21 P Bob, my helmet is on but my gloves are off ... 21:02:26 CC Understand. 21:03:41 CC Gemini VII, Canary. 21:03:43 P Go ahead, Canary. 21:03:44 CC Roger. Who had his helmet on while they - while you were sleeping? 21:03:47 P We both did. 21:03:49 CC Both of you. Understand. 21:14:46 P General comment on the Hasselblad camera viewfinder: the viewfinder ... the holder ..., requires a piece of tape to keep it on. I wonder if it's been ... checked before we got it. 21:14:56 C ... 21:41:19 P Okay. 21:41:20 C You ready? 21:41:24 P Ready. 21:41:55 C Okay. That last dump was the courtesy of Borman. In a minute, we will have Lovell. Stand by. 21:42:05 C Ready. 21:42:06 P Ready ... ## 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.