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Gemini VII Air-to-Ground Transcript Volume I: 5011500_VolumeI

· 341 pages · text by OCR

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.

  • p. 82 …The photometer could never go RED, it stayed GREEN all the time, and we had to…
  • p. 106 …photometer would never be RED. We'd always have it GREEN. We'd have the scale…
  • p. 290 …so high and so faint that we never could get a really good shot at it…
## CONFIDENTIAL

22:29:32 C Roger.

22:29:33 P Okay ...

22:29:34 C No, Jim, it's right here.

22:29:35 P Okay. We'll go through D-4/D-7, and that's what - 309, 09. Right?

## BERMUDA

22:29:38 CC Gemini VII, Houston. Have you turned the transponder off at this time?

22:29:42 P Roger. Transponder is off.

22:29:44 CC Roger.

22:30:14 C 109, Jim.

22:30:15 P D-4/D-7.

22:30:16 C 22:56.

22:30:17 P ...

22:30:18 C 409 and 410.

22:30:45 P Okay. ACQ-AID circuit breaker should be open.

22:30:47 CC Gemini VII, Houston. We're about to lose contact. We'll get your flight plan report on the next pass.

22:30:54 P This is VII. Roger. We're going to turn the ACQ-AID beacon off for D-4/D-7.

22:30:59 CC Roger.

## CANARY

22:36:25 CC Gemini VII, Canary CAP COM. Contact. How do you read? Over.

## CONFIDENTIAL

Cases discussed

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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.