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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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Conrad Cooper Cooper Conrad Yes, we did that in Rate Command right on the money. Then we had an S- 8/D-13 and we documented those t hings ; Gordo saw part of it and I did.r. 1 t . We never did really get a good score . ThE·n at 18 : 50 again we alined the platform SEF and seit the computer up to 25 00164 and burned thiE1 reverse coelliptic maneuver at 19:04:18 , and that was a good burn too. MCC had put in their Agena computer an Agena ephemeris, and they ran a rendezvous solution on a fake Agena. They had us make the actual burns, and then they computed hJw close we would have wound up. I was told over the radio that we got within 0 .2 mile of altitude and 0 . 3 mile horizontal distance from where we should have actually been. That was well within the tolerances , so they were apparently fairly pleased with the burns . Then we had S-7 at 2 days 21 tours 33 minutes 02 seconds , and Gordo shot moet of those. They always happened on your wat ch. Yes. Then we did 2 days 21 hours and 50 minutes . We had ,, Apollo Landmark south -· Th.at' s when I woke up and you had tha·~ Lake . . . I
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