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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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“Roll”11 pages

  • p. 2 …00:00:21 C Roll initiate. 00:00:22 C ... Yaw. 00:00:23 CC Roger…
  • p. 9 …00:10:53 C That's for getting a - we have a roll in here for…
  • p. 10 …00:10:55 C That shouldn't cause it to roll. 00:11:02 C Can…
  • p. 80 …These are for a rolling reentry and the weather in all areas is good. 22:38…
  • p. 124 …continual venting of the booster, plus its rolling, made it a little bit fuel-consuming. I…
  • p. 126 …I'm leaving spare parts, ..., gloves, everything in the suit; two rolls of movie film ... 45…
  • p. 187 …These are for rolling reentries. Did you copy? 67:56:36 P At 65:24: took…
  • p. 203 …All of our cloud shots have been ... rolled the spacecraft vertically so that the window ... 71…
  • p. 215 …73:23:45 P Do you want to roll it? 73:23:47 C Which way…
  • p. 232 …77:11:52 C You only have 40 rolls of that so we'd better - - 77…
  • p. 318 …These are for rolling re-entry and the weather is good in all areas. 113:43…
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

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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.