Documents / Official release

Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 1965 · 223 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

Open the PDF at page 107 Original source ↗

“Gray”4 pages

  • p. 22 …5 or 6 gray splots, just small ones , very small little gray- type splots and I…
  • p. 105 …We al so found that little-hook up was i •eeling gray paint off of those…
  • p. 131 …there were about foUT or five little gray flecks of etuff and debris just flew everywhere…
  • p. 182 …I Looking 180 from the sun you re looking into a gray , black, fuzzy -- boy, there…
102
I will make the comment that I don't think the
window changed, just from my looking at it .
Cooper No , I don ' t think it did, either, I think it was
just as bad at first , as it was at l ant.
Conrad That's right.
Cooper And it was pretty bad .
Conrad So, I don I t think they lost anything ·;here on that
data. We just couldn't ge t that one.
Cooper Okay. Let's see. We had a medical pgss at day 3,
13 hours 50 minutes - 13 hours 47 minutes, actually.
Alined the platform
Conrad We went through a really big day. This was day
3 and this was the day we were really organized .
The experimenters sent us up about the right
number of experiments. They gave us enough time
between experiments , and they planned them well
enough so that we didn't have any troubl e changing
the gear around or anything, and we had a big day
that day.
Cooper This was a great day.
Conrad We had enough time to do it all and we felt good
about it. We felt that it was the best day we
flew.

Not linked to a story yet.

About this file

Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 223 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.