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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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101CONFIDENT~ Conrad Then I have Pla t form to ORB Rate , Prelaunch , and horizon scan for some r eason . ~uestar 01 , 90 degrees left . Cooper We alined SEF at 13: 10. Conrad Oh, that was these platform tests 1 and 2 that they wanted us to do . Cooper That's right. We were getting ready for another stateside pass, too . We installed the photometer, we did an S- 8/D-13 pass at day 3, 13 hours 32 minutes at Laredo . Conrad Oh , let me make a comment right now on S- 8/D- 13 . We were supposed to make a measurement , a window survey, of the window before day one and the last day. Okay, the window scan was done on 1 day 18 hours 26 minutes 00 seconds. That was the first window scan . A second window scan was never done because the last 3 days of the flight we were in drifting flight . This required a 30- degree sun angle on the window, and we never did have a control system back until we were on the RCS sys tem. We weren ' t about to do any experiments on RCS fuel . That was right before retro . The second window scan, the one at the end of the flight , wasn ' t done. But
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