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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. 51 …38 C Okay. Recorder off, dump completed. ROSE KNOT VICTOR 04:59:22 CC Gemini VII…
  • p. 57 …about 6 plus 32, 6 plus 32. ROSE KNOT VICTOR 06:32:46 CC Gemini VII…
  • p. 62 ## CONFIDENTIAL ROSE KNOT VICTOR 11:20:26 CC Gemini VII, RKV CAP COM. All systems are…
  • p. 99 …Jim's crew status report remains at three. ## ROSE KNOT VICTOR 28:55:34 CC Gemini…
  • p. 103 …a try. 30:13:08 CC Roger. ROSE KNOT VICTOR 30:30:44 CC Gemini VII…
  • p. 107 …31:37:48 C Roger. Thank you. ROSE KNOT VICTOR 32:06:28 CC Gemini VII…
  • p. 168 …bags to put over both windows to ... ## ROSE KNOT VICTOR 52:51:52 CC Gemini VII…
  • p. 172 …53:59:26 C Roger. ## ROSE KNOT VICTOR 54:27:10 CC Gemini VII, RKV CAP…
  • p. 176 …MATIC. 55:37:01 CC Very good. ROSE KNOT VICTOR 56:02:52 CC Gemini VII…
  • p. 226 …star, Jim. ## ROSE KNOT VICTOR 75:15:25 CC Gemini VII, RKV CAP COM. You need…
  • p. 229 …76:33:52 C Roger. Thank you. ROSE KNOT VICTOR 76:49:10 CC Gemini VII…
  • p. 235 …Need not acknowledge. ## ROSE KNOT VICTOR 78:24:38 CC Gemini VII, RKV CAP COM. 78…
  • p. 295 …standing by all night. See you tomorrow. ROSE KNOT VICTOR 99:12:54 CC Gemini VII…
  • p. 301 …3400. Stop watch, 200; sextant, 44.116. ROSE KNOT VICTOR 100:47:26 CC Gemini VII…
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# (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.