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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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Yeah.
Just kept getting worse, worse , worse--
and so--Pete has a note here--tell Houston
about primary scanner--which we did
shortly thereafter at 3 hours, 18 minutes ,
3 days, 18 hours and 16 minutes we did
an S- 7 , and then at 3 days , 18 hours
and 25 minutes we purged, powe:('ed down ,
computer off, platform off, re·;icle off,
rate gyros off, etc. , etc.
Yeah. Then you have a--you1 ve got an
S- 7 done at 03:21:20 : 08.
Right ,
You had an Apollo landmark at 03:21:38 :02
a 213 and I think that--we got Lake
De Poo Poo or whatever it was , when we
got t hat done.
We got that one.
There was a D- 4 D- 7 at 03:22: 48 :17 a
425a--I don ' t know what that was but-
Well , we also got in addition just before
that at day 3, 22 hours and 15 minutes
we got an S- 6 magazine 4; exposure 12 , Not linked to a story yet.
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