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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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132 • Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad to flight ~oi ce tape out - num·oer 7 yaw left thruster out and OAMS heat er light turned ba ck on again. And so we were supposed to ask 7 Keywest and D- 8 S- 13, SAD- 13 about 6 : 22:50 - OK - From ther e on for a while things just got scrubbed i n the flight plan on that day five , the l atter part of the time on entries there . Yeah, that ' s when they got us into this minimum power down - voice cont~ol - 1 suit f an - 2 coolant pumps , 1 a,Jq_. aid, UHF r eceiver, DOS receiver, PCM - That ' s when they decided the hydrogen wasnI t going to l ast at the preoent electri cal rate . That ' s what I wrote down - Houston hot dope - drift for three days - r icky, tieky. (Laughter) Sorry - But at day 5, 19 hours and 25 minutes we did get a fix on Doreen - wher e she was ther e . Yeah, everything happened that day. That
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