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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 ## HAWAII 25:13:15 CC Gemini VII, Hawaii CAP COM. 25:13:18 C This is VII. Go ahead. 25:13:21 CC How are you doing up there this morning? 25:13:26 C Looking great! Looking great! 25:13:33 CC Okay. We're showing you GO here on the ground. Do you want to copy this flight plan update at this time? 25:13:43 P This is VII. Ready to copy, and also, would you confirm the yaw instructions to the S-8/D-13? 25:13:51 CC Okay. The yaw instructions for S-8/D-13: yaw 13 left. 25:14:01 P Roger. Understand. 13 degrees left. Thank you. 25:14:09 P Go ahead. 25:14:11 CC MSC-12: Time, 27:00:39; Sequence 01; pitch 30 degrees down, yaw 0 degrees. D-4/D-7: 27:00:39; Sequence 419; Mode 02; concurrent with MSC-12; Mode - correction - Sequence 421; Mode 02; same remarks; Sequence 422; Mode 02; same remarks. D-4/D-7: 27:14:00; equipment off. MSC-2 and 3: 27:15:00; Sequence 02; off at 42:00:00. D-5: 27:15:00; Sequence 01. At 28:37:00: crew status report, Command Pilot. At 28:44:00: purge fuel cells over Canaveral. MSC-2 and 3: 29:00:00; Sequence 03; stop at 29:20:00. The rest of these are S-8 - correction - next one is S-8/D-13: 29:42:00; Sequence 03. At 29:57:00: crew status report on the Pilot at Hawaii. At 31:33:00: you'll have a planned landing area update. At 31:55:00: radar transponder on. At 32:05:00: purge fuel cells at the RKV. At 32:05:00: radar transponder off; it will be end-of-pass. And I have a correction when you're ready. 25:18:10 P This is Gemini VII. Have copied. Say again. 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.