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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.
117 .:: Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper in the spacecr aft. Gosh, we ' re messing around with the star charts- - still don ' t tell you how much to pitch up or yaw around to find the darn thing. They tell you where it would be on yaw path. You just sort of got to figure it out it •s over to the left or the right and go over and look for it . Well , that ' s not the way to do it . Heck, we never navigated that way in the Navy. You go into star chart with local hour angle and it gives you the elevation and azimuth to the star, from North, and that ' s essentially what you need here . You need the elevation and azimuth angle off the orbital plane. OK , let's see--at day 4, 14:56:50 we had a D- 4, D- 7 White Sands Sled Run which was successful . And then we got the ship. An then we got the D- 6 424a r ight after that. At 14: 57 : 31 we got D-6 sequence 134.
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