Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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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Cooper
we didn ' t get Venus . We never found
it . That' s right.
That ' s right. We never even found
Venus on that night side. Platform
test 2--
And I got a remark here to find out
that on day 6 at 01 hours, 02 minutes
and 15 seconds where in the heck were
we because there were great fires on the
ground?
Yeah.
OK--so I did write it down--all right-
SA- D-13, day 3, 18 :16:14--and I had
some comments about that here some place .
16:14 - We scored a 4 and a 1--and the
4 was in the upper--the 1 was in the
upper left hand box and the 4 was in
the second box in the second row.
Right. OK about this period of time-
let ' s see we had an S- 7--0h, first before
this--then we had run some more tests
on our primary scanner and found out
that it was completely inoperative and--