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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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116 Conrad Cooper Conrad Let ' s see at 14:15, day 4, D-4, D- 7 , 410c. D- 4 , D- 7 , 410c was--that•s one of the ones where we were supposed to track a star or something--yeah , we were supposed to track Nunki and we never could find it because it was-- It was up in first, early-- It was up early-- we had troubln with that . That ' s another thing I could have recommended those gu:ys--we got enough to do in the spacecraft not to worry about setting up the star chart and figuring out from the- -somethir..g you can ' t do from the star chart is figure out a pitch and yaw angle and the grormd ' s got that information up the kazoo, so on any of these ones where they want you to photograph some stars or anything else-you' ve got to platform up again - the easiest thing to do is send up a pitch and yaw with it and that just takes all the work out of it
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