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Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 1965 · 223 pages · text from the file's own layer

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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  • p. 105 …We al so found that little-hook up was i •eeling gray paint off of those…
  • p. 131 …there were about foUT or five little gray flecks of etuff and debris just flew everywhere…
  • p. 182 …I Looking 180 from the sun you re looking into a gray , black, fuzzy -- boy, there…
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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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