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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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128 ,,, Conrad Cooper Conrad Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper But this is a good little map t oo . It really has the right things on it. There wasn't anytime we didn ' t Look down and know exactly where we ·Here. This thing is really great. Probably the cheapest thing in the spacecraft. That 1 s one Jerry Jones made up. We tried out a long time ago and I said I liked it and I wanted to take one like that rather than this big elaborate one - Yeah, it really worked great. Yeah, I just saw all these map star updates we had here. Yeah. One thing they could do . They could put about 3 or 4 more orbi ts on it and not have t o update it so often . Might be a little handier. Just a tr.ought - but it 1 s good the way i t is. CK, l et's see , we ' re on day 4, 22 hours en d 20 minutes - we did a cabin l ighting survey. We did the radar test 10 . Cabi n lighting S-7 , MSC-1. And med data. ~tf>fNT=IAL
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