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Gemini VII Air-to-Ground Transcript Volume I: 5011500_VolumeI

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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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  • p. 6 ## CONFIDENTIAL 00:06:19 P And ... reads 27, 25804. 00:06:24 C ... this is Gemini…
  • p. 8 …How do you read? 00:09:35 CC Loud and clear. 00:09:36 P OAMS…
  • p. 14 …How do you read? Over. 00:16:10 C Good. How do you read us? 00…
  • p. 17 …We're going to get a long read now. RCS experiment - experiment. Group 4 ON ... safe…
  • p. 20 …00:22:58 C Read you loud and clear, Houston. How do you read us? 00…
  • p. 21 …We've a reading of 125 now. 00:24:44 CC Roger. 125 pounds. ## CONFIDENTIAL
  • p. 22 ## CONFIDENTIAL 00:24:45 C You still want us to use the crossfeed? We're reading…
  • p. 25 …Do you read? 00:37:07 CC Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. Do you read through…
  • p. 26 …It's reading 700. 00:50:04 CC Would you say again, please? 00:50:05…
  • p. 28 …Do you read? 01:12:02 CC Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. Do you read? 01…
  • p. 29 …Understand you are reading weak but clear. We are continuing to analyze the Fuel Cell light…
  • p. 30 …How do you read? 01:31:29 CC Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. How do you…
  • p. 33 …How do you read? Over. 01:39:59 CC I read you loud and clear on…
  • p. 36 …How do you read? 02:12:58 C Loud and clear, Houston. This is Gemini VII…
  • p. 37 …02:26:19 CC Would you turn your Quantity Read switch to the FUEL CELL O2…
  • p. 40 …How do you read? 03:05:09 CC Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. How do you…
  • p. 42 …03:13:27 CC Gemini VII, would you read that back? 03:13:30 C Roger…
  • p. 43 …Would you place your ECS Quantity - your Quantity Read switch to the ECS O2 position for…
  • p. 44 …How do you read? 03:26:55 CC Roger. Read you loud and clear. Based on…
  • p. 45 …03:49:30 C Houston, how do you read? Gemini VII. 03:49:32 CC Loud…
  • p. 46 …It reads 67 percent. 04:01:38 CC Roger. Copy 67 percent. 04:01:41 C…
  • p. 49 …How do you read? Over. 04:42:36 P This is VII. Read you loud and…
  • p. 50 …How do you read now? 04:45:07 P Clear now. 04:45:09 CC Roger…
  • p. 52 …How do you read? Over. 05:19:37 P This is VII. Read you loud and…
  • p. 54 …05:47:02 CC Would you verify your Cryo Gaging switch to OFF? Quantity read to…
  • p. 61 …Quantity Read switched off. 10:50:58 C Still on OFF on the Quantity Read. 10…
  • p. 63 …How do you read? 12:07:19 CC Gemini VII, CSQ CAP COM. Read you loud…
  • p. 65 …Would you give us your Quantity Read switch in the ECS O₂ position until my Mark…
  • p. 66 ## CONFIDENTIAL ## CARNARVON 18:29:04 CC Carnarvon reads you loud and clear. How me? 18:29…
  • p. 67 …How do you read? 20:45:53 C This is VII, Houston. Good morning. It's…
  • p. 70 …We'll read them out here on the ground. 20:52:13 P Roger. Fuel cell…
  • p. 71 …Would you place your Quantity Read switch to the FUEL CELL O2 position again? 20:54…
  • p. 73 …How do you read? 21:59:33 P This is VII. You're coming in very…
  • p. 74 …How do you read? 22:17:18 P This is VII. Read you loud and clear…
  • p. 76 …22:23:46 CC I read that you can hear the M-1 and it does…
  • p. 77 …I read that the water gun was working very well. I didn't get the last…
  • p. 79 …How do you read? Over. ## CONFIDENTIAL
  • p. 83 …How do you read? 23:32:28 C Read you weak but clear. 23:32:31…
  • p. 85 …to this point, plus one humidity transfer reading. 23:59:47 CC Roger. 23:59:54…
  • p. 86 …24:02:27 P 1A reads 3.5; 1B, 4.0; 1C, 4.0; 2A, 3…
  • p. 87 …Do you read? 24:31:30 CC Gemini VII, Houston. Do you read? 24:31:33…
  • p. 91 …I read a 3 and a 4 and that was going away, Elliot. I picked up…
  • p. 93 …We copied a Fuel Cell O2 Quantity read. We were reading out 95.2 percent here…
  • p. 95 …Frank got those readings. 27:05:27 CC Roger. We understand. We have some football scores…
  • p. 97 …Your on-board gage readings correlate real well with ground computations. 28:24:05 C Roger…
  • p. 108 …32:07:30 CC Would you place your Quantity Read switch to ECS O2? 32:08…
  • p. 109 …32:10:20 C I'm coming off the transponder if you have your reading. 32…
  • p. 110 …How do you read? 40:37:15 CC Gemini VII, CSQ CAP COM. Read you loud…
  • p. 112 …How do you read? ## CONFIDENTIAL
  • p. 113 …How do you read? 43:10:16 CC Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. How do you…
  • p. 114 …43:14:05 CC Would you switch Quantity Read to FUEL CELL H₂? 43:14:08…
  • p. 115 …Do you read? 43:18:24 C Go ahead. 43:18:26 CC MSC-2 and…
  • p. 118 …44:41:23 CC Gemini VII, reading you slightly garbled. How do you read? 44:41…
  • p. 119 …good? We are not getting a good reading. 44:43:03 P Roger. It's in…
  • p. 121 …44:48:08 CC Jim, could you read from your log and give me the meals…
  • p. 126 …Jim's plug on the BIO MED read now. 45:07:09 CC Gemini VII, Gemini…
  • p. 127 …How did you read? 45:09:42 C Read you loud and clear. I wondered where…
  • p. 128 …How do you read? 45:20:27 C ... 45:20:29 CC Roger. We've been…
  • p. 132 …How do you read? 46:14:39 C Loud and clear, Elliot. 46:14:41 CC…
  • p. 133 …46:18:28 CC You want to read it back? 46:18:31 P Roger. 46…
MAC CONTROL NO. 115308

# (TITLE UNCLASSIFIED)

# GEMINI VII VOICE COMMUNICATIONS

# (AIR-TO-GROUND, GROUND-TO-AIR AND ON-BOARD TRANSCRIPTION)

VOLUME I of III

Pages 1-337

THIS MATERIAL CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE ESPIONAGE LAWS. TITLE 18. U.S.C. SECTION 793 AND 794. THE TRANSMISSION OR REVELATION OF WHICH IN ANY MANNER TO AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS PROHIBITED BY LAW.

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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 341 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.