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This is a preliminary transcript of the Gemini V (GT-5) flight crew debriefing, prepared by NASA's Spacecraft Operations Branch, Flight Crew Support Division, and dated September 1, 1965. It records Cooper and Conrad's operational account from the debriefing held August 30 to September 1, 1965 at Cape Kennedy. Topics include countdown, window fogging, POGO vibration, fairing jettison debris, radio loss, reentry and recovery. Visual sightings are left for a later part of the debriefing.
From the source:Release of 2026-06-12 Incident: August 2 - September 2, 1965, Cape Kennedy, Florida. This document is a preliminary transcript (Part I) derived from voice recordings of the Gemini 5 flight crew technical debriefing. NASA conducted this debriefing between August 30, 1965, and September 2, 1965, at the Crew Quarters, Cape Kennedy, Florida.
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95 clip so hard that when I pulled it out , I pulled it completely apart. I shattered it . I broke out my lens . Glass floating around and everything. Where did we stow that? I forgot . I gave it to you and you stowed i t -- Cooper I put it in the garbage bag. Conrad That ' s right ; it's in the garbage bag, someplace. Well , they have gone through all that. Cooper Incidentially, that one single-point cord that we have in there over on my side , if I had had something to cut it with, I should have cut it right in two so it wouldn 't be used again . It's no good . It works fine as long as you don ' t put any tension on it. When you s t ring it up to put it in the reticle, it shorts out . Conrad Then we went through another maneuver preparation at 17:50: 00 on the second day. We alined the platform SEF and we sat up an out-of-plane maneuver and address 27 00150 , 15 feet per second out of plane burn, and 90 degrees yaw left . At 02 days 18 hours 06 minutes 50 seconds we made that out-of-plane burn . Cooper We did that in Rate Command and right on the money.
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