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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.
124 Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad And we would be in the procesH of cleaning up when we'd come by and we ' d have that Guaymas pass where we'd come ·1:iy and have California acq. and Guaymas acq. and we ' d go right down the side of Mexico , the west side, and then cross the isthmus and go down Brazil and then fI'Om there on you - that was your last contact with the states and you'd stay out there with the CSQ RKV cycle through the rest of the night and that time we got all the way around there and picked up the CSQ the first time and we ' d have Hawaii once more - Then we were already through my s l eep period and that ' s supposed to be Pete ' s sleep period - that was the not:'lllal sleep period. We worked our tail off that wh:>le time - That was the normal sleep peri,:,d and we just barely have things all sq·.lared away so then we both powered down - ·- Go thru this terrible 50 minut,:s with both of us like this - we ' d uh- uh, oh, yeah - hi
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