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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.
119 Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper ~FIDE~TIA All right - 15 hours 40 minutes- Then D- 4, D- 7 was the second Minuteman which we saw but we didn't track. 16 hours 28 minutes, 423b - we did the HF tests 4 at 17 hours. Wait a minute- I got a - we had an S- 7 at 16:37 and it was the thunderstorms in southern Florida. I think we got those. We got that one. All right - We had a D- 6 at 16: 51:25 which was an 065 - Right And if I ' m not mistaken that was that Island off Brazil and we photographed the wrong island - then we found out our mistake in time and - Just as we were going over we shifted over to the other island - And we photographed the right island - it lookeQ. like there was only one island out there and we found out there were two i s lands out there so we did get the right pictures . There again, the maps we had just weren ' t
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