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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 25:30:03 CC This is Houston. Go ahead, Gemini VII. 25:30:07 P Roger. Got the sight ... I read a 3 and a 4 and that was going away, Elliot. I picked up the four white bars just the last moment. We're going over the Gulf now. 25:30:24 CC Roger. 25:30:26 P I read ... of those, and we're just about overhead and looking slightly south. 25:30:31 CC Roger. 25:30:32 P I couldn't find the smoke. 25:30:34 CC I beg your pardon? 25:30:39 CC VII. Say again. 25:30:42 P Roger. I couldn't see the smoke at first. 25:30:44 CC Roger. Understand you read a 3 and a 4. Do you know what squares those were on? 25:30:49 P They're on the biggest ones, a 3, 2, and a 4. They're the only ones I could read. 25:30:54 CC A 3, a 2 and a 4 on the first three squares. Is that correct? 25:31:01 P Right. But that was a quick, shoot-from-the-hip look because I was on my way past ... at the time. 25:31:08 CC Okay, Deadeye. 25:31:15 CC Get anything with that? 25:31:16 P We missed that the last time. By the time we got to Houston, we were over Mobile. 25:31:22 CC How about this pass? 25:31:31 C We're just about pointing straight up now, Elliot. We would have to use too much gas to get back. # 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.