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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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112 FCSD r ep . Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper FCSD rep. Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Then the platform wasn ' t on? Was not on . That ' s right- -see you got to he able to have an accurate means of pointing of having yaw and-- They said pitch up 83 degreeR, yaw 45 degrees left--out of that window. You don I t have any idea in the wo:dd. I mean, we didn't even have rat1:! gyros powered up. You have no idea in the world where you a.re pointing, just- You are wasting your time try:Lng to do this kind of job without a platform . What is this a shot of--what "i.s this target? Well , for any pointing r equiraments , especially ones in the sky-- Where they are going at different angles , see. You have to have a platform. Then along at day 4, 5 hours and 40 minutes , Buzz ' s eX])eriment was placed in there on a switch-- f
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