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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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120 Conrad Cooper Conrad big enough in their overall look at things to give you a clue as to what - I ' ll show you this - This is the kind of thing that you just can•t have-that was 065- now what you need to help you find an island is some clue as to Khere it is located in the world- well, t hat ' s what we had-- Yeah, there was the island-- Now it turns out that right up about here there ' s another island--laught er--and man we took all kinds of -- sE!e fortunately it was far enough away - you •• look 15 seconds up there is 15 x 8 is 120 miles- and 120 miles is a lot of dist ance but you are covering that in 15 snconds - well fortunately this was about 15 or 20 seconds - we·were pitched down and we were at least at the 90 and Wt:! got the second island a little bit pa::Jt the nadir, because we already had been t :cack.ing t his first island see and thlm here we came drifting along feeling how great we were
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