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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 22:27:12 CC Roger. First item is everyone on the Wasp is very happy about your launch. Their theme song is: "I'll Be Home For Christmas". Next news item is we had - two airliners had a collision up near New York yesterday. Fortunately most of the people did survive. There were six lost but 106 survived. One airplane landed with about a 30-foot section of wing off. The headlines in the Post today say, "GT-VII and Spent Rocket Playing Tag". They've got very nice pictures of both Susan and Marilyn on the cover. And down at the Cape things are going real good setting up Gemini VI. They're running about four hours ahead of schedule. Tennessee beat UCLA 37 to 34. The Buffaloes play the Oilers here today and Minnesota is at Green Bay today. That's all we have right now. 22:28:25 C It looks like it's safer up here than down there. 22:28:27 P We're not down yet, Buddy! 22:28:28 CC Roger. Incidentally, in regard to the strap hanging on the back of the spacecraft, we sort of surmised yesterday that the report that you gave us hitting the front end was caused when it perhaps fell over in front of one of the aft thrusters during your Perigee-Adjust Maneuver and that caused it to flop up in the front. You probably deduced the same thing by now. 22:29:02 C When the strap came forward, that's when we stopped thrusting, ... 22:29:08 CC Roger. What we're saying - the reason it flopped up forward was it probably drifted over in front of the thruster at the time you were firing and that threw it up there. 22:29:14 C 22:56, D-4/D-7. 22:29:15 P Roger. 22:29:22 C ... 22:29:24 C ... reticle out. 22:29:31 P Okay ... 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.