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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 00:08:42 P Just a minute. I'll put the main batteries off first. 00:08:43 C ... 00:08:44 P Okay. I turned the main batteries off. 00:08:45 C ... very well. 00:08:47 CC Roger. Understand. Going very well. 00:08:57 P Okay - going to get the other things. 00:09:00 C ... Oh, there. Now I can see it better. How about you? 00:09:01 P Okay -- 00:09:02 C What a fantastic sight, isn't it? 00:09:12 P Fantastic! Great! 00:09:13 C Are you getting pictures of that? 00:09:14 P I'll get the whole thing if I can get it. 00:09:21 P The sun's in the way, though, Frank. 00:09:22 C On my side it's completely black. 00:09:24 P It is? 00:09:25 C Yes. 00:09:26 P Yes. See, the sun's in the way of the camera. 00:09:29 P Okay. Stand by here a second. All ... vertical ... 00:09:33 P Houston, Gemini VII. How do you read? 00:09:35 CC Loud and clear. 00:09:36 P OAMS heaters are going off. 00:09:37 C Houston. Gemini VII. How do you read? 00:09:38 C I tell you the reason if you'd start stationkeeping
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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.