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

· 341 pages · text by OCR

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.

  • p. 187 …took pictures of unusual dune formations over Africa. Four shots, Magazine A, Frames 44 to 48…
  • p. 215 …taking some pictures of the unusual cloud formations here. Down there ... We ought to come up…
  • p. 221 …Cloud formation over the Pacific. 74:46:58 P Hawaii, Gemini VII. Purge complete. ## CONFIDENTIAL
  • p. 240 …taking pictures of stratified cloud formations ... Indian Ocean. 88:40:19 P Also, at about the…
  • p. 243 …At 89:26 we're taking pictures of some strange cloud formations ... 89:29, Magazine M…
  • p. 285 …cloud formation. 97:15:23 P I thought maybe ... 97:15:25 C ... 97:15:28…
  • p. 327 …Three pictures were taken of the Canaries, showing the cloud formations on the islands. The Magazine…
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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