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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.

  • 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…
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20 minutes and 25 seconds , we got an
S- 7, sequence 01 and let's see--and thru
this period was where we both completely
ran out of steam--here on--we were trying
to get you to sleep so I deleted all of
these tests right in thru here to let
Pete sleep . On day 4, starting at 3
hours and 45 minutes on--
Deleted the HF tests here--
Kept adding these tests in here that
were--just weren ' t going to get him
any sleep at all.
This was this 145 mode this was at D- 6,
D-4, D- 7 and D- 2. It was the 145 mode
for the 01 and 414 .
That ' s right . At day 4 , 48 hours--
Yeah, here I have this thing--4th day,
U. S. passes--we started at 11 :00 o!clock.
What 1 s this 04, 4 hours , 48 minutes a.rid
58 seconds there was a D-2 that we had
no success on,
Now comment on that . To do any of those
things you have to have the platform on.

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