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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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130 Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad NFl0Etsl:TIAt '4 at 5 day , 10 hours and 20 mim:.tes we had Apollo No. 208 , which we g'Ot . We had S- 502 which we got . We had D- 4, D- 7, sequence 414 which we got and we had the platform tests which ·Ke did . Yeah then we got the radar teet run - And Pete has a note here "Get serious," it really starts getti ng thick and heavy.-- Well , I don't know--they were really getting wild - We had a platform aline - plat form test, radar test , this is day 5, 11 hours and 35 minutes - We had D- 6 , D- 4, D- 7 , platform aline, radar test - That ' s where they were off the·ir rocker. But we got them. Those were s.ll in the day 5, 11 to 12 hours - Listen, there ' s a lot of sloppy things in there - I mean we got thine:s done but we missed little subtleties -· like we were supposed to run the 16mm camera along with some part of the I R gear and I wouldn I t get that on - and E. bunch of 0NF-IDENT.IAL .Iii
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