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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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Conrad
Cooper
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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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