Documents / Official release
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.
“Gray”4 pages
106 a.nd 45 minutes a.nd radar was on a.nd radar off, on--we had that radar test right in there that they wanted to do. Conrad Did we get those pictures of Venus and Fomalhaut. This platform 1 and 2 business? Cooper I thought we did. Conrad I didn ' t have a done log on that and I don't think I wrote that down anywhere whether we-- Cooper I don't remember whether we ever got Venus or not. OK, let ' s see---the tape recorder was apparently still working there because you changed the tape there. That day at 17 hours-- yeah--he:r:e we go. Conrad Wait a minute--here, I got it down here. Platform test 1, magazine 9, picture 23, l/30th of a second- no - somet::iing Questar. Cooper Didn't get Venus-- Conrad Platform test 02 , magazine 9, picture 22, I/30th of a second-- oh, no fili;er--I 1m sorry. Fomalhaut--we got Foma:Lhaut but CO~FIDENTIAL.-
Not linked to a story yet.
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.