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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 25:18:13 CC Okay. The crew status report on the Command Pilot. That time will be over Texas. 25:18:25 P Roger, Hawaii. Have it all written down. And the crew status ... 25:18:30 CC Okay. They want to change that transponder off to to 32:12:00. 25:18:36 P Roger. ... changing the last transponder off to 32:12:00. 25:18:42 CC That's affirmative. 25:18:54 CC Okay. We'll be standing by here if you need anything else. Need not acknowledge. 25:19:37 CC There's heavy smoke west of Laredo, Gemini VII. ## GUAYMAS 25:23:47 CC Gemini VII, Guaymas CAP COM. 25:23:50 P This is VII. Go ahead. 25:23:52 CC Roger. All systems look good here on the ground. 25:23:55 P Thank you, Guaymas. 25:23:57 CC We would like to tell you that there is some very dense smoke about 100 miles due west of Laredo with about a 30-mile plume. 25:24:11 P Roger. Understand dense smoke 100 miles west of Laredo with a 30-mile plume. Right? 25:24:17 CC Roger. We have nothing else for you. We'll be standing by. TEXAS 25:29:53 P Hello, Houston. This is Gemini VII. ## 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.