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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.

  • p. 22 …5 or 6 gray splots, just small ones , very small little gray- type splots and I…
  • 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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HF test 4 then at 417 , 4:17:40 med
data was done. HF test 4 ended on -
down there - OK, day 4, 19 hours 44 minutes
was S- 7 which was completed .
Yeah, both the ·s- 71 s were completed.
Then there's an S- 7b, 21 hours , 9 minutes
and 50 seconds storm Doreen - we completed,
Time of closest approach was at 21:09:30,
They had us tracking this storm - you
see
Oh, yeah.
We estimated the eye was
250 miles left of course
approximately
-
Have you got the orbits - yeah, here it
is . This thing is the greatest thing in
the whole world . It 1 s the simplest -
cheapest thing in the spacecraft and -
It is - it is great.
We would have been lost without this
thing. This orbital update map. Boy,
it really- well, the orbit was really
good as far as -
You really don't know where ~ou are at-

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