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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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Apollo landmark 207- that was at 07 :14:25
must be day 5 ,
No , not that far along - We did UHF 6
we did at 2 hours , day 5, 2 hours and
something.
You said you had an S-7 that was again
during my sleep cycle and you said missed
while discussing Cryos with CSQ.
Right.
And then you had an MSC 1 at 05 :40 and you
got that done.
Now you're ahead of me--hold up just a
minute . We 're down here now - let~ see -
here's the S-7. 05 :40 MSC- 1 that was done .
You got your Apollo landmark -
Apollo landmark at sequence 207 at 7 hours
and 14 minutes.
What was 207?
Lake Titicaca
That was the Canaries -
Oh, yeah , all right. Then we had SAD- 13 -
vision tests on both of us which we did
together instead of separately. And then

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