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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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22:36:28 P This is VII. Loud and clear. 22:36:29 CC Roger. We have you GO on the ground. Your status? 22:36:35 P We're GO out here and waiting for an update. 22:36:37 CC Okay. Ready to copy? 22:36:38 P All set. 22:36:41 CC 17-1: 25:17:08; 14 plus 20. 18-4: 28:07:21; 15 plus 15. 19-4: 29:42:38; 14 plus 34. 20-3: 30:57:47; 17 plus 02. 21-3: 32:34:02; 15 plus 45. These are for a rolling reentry and the weather in all areas is good. 22:38:07 C This is Gemini VII. Roger. And thank you for the transmission; just the right speed. 22:38:12 CC Roger. You're welcome. We'll be standing by. 22:38:58 CC VII, Canary. 22:39:02 P This is VII. Go ahead. 22:39:04 CC Did you notice any venting while you were purging the fuel cells, especially in the hydrogen? 22:39:10 P No, we couldn't tell of any and also we didn't notice any Delta-P light on the first section. 22:39:16 CC No Delta-P on the first section while purging and you didn't get any sort of venting at all? 22:39:22 P Not to my knowledge. 22:39:24 CC Okay. Copy. 22:42:07 CC VII, Canary. 22:42:11 C Go ahead. 22:42:12 CC Roger. We'd like to know if you got the right-aft food box unstowed. 22:42:16 C Roger. It's unstowed. We're in mission configuration and everything is in good shape. 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.