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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.
118 Conrad FCSD rep. Cooper FCSD rep. Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Which we did photograph the Lake Champlain. Did you see this thing-- how dii you pick this thing up--did you us: a tele scope or- We saw him visually - found h~n visually and then From the wake-- Put the pipper on him and Pete took pictures with the big camera. Then we got a D- 6 15:04:40 series 134. What was that? That ' s the ship . Well, what was the 424a? That was the White Sands MissiJe Run. Oh, OK, We got a D-4, D-7 at 15:19:00 that was the 419-- The 419 was the ascension calibration. We did that darn thing again for them- remember that over Australia or something I don't know what the heck we did it for because I told them we got that thing once. Anyhow, then we did a platform aline.
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