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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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133 Cooper Conrad IDE1'1TIA - was when the PC02 started to read for some reason. PC02 came off the scale and was reading way up there for a while. We broke out one of the co2 tapes, and it showed that we were still all right . We figured the gage was its usual reliability. Okay, now, I think this is good for the recorder right here. At that time, as of 5 days 21 hours 00 minutes they wanted to know what our experiment status was. So on the UHF , we had completed tests 1, 2, 3 and I said 6 just so that if they were still trying to keep that number under their lid. That's what it sounded like because they kept mentioning it. We ' d done D- 1 , 1, ~, and 3 which had completed D- 1. D- 2 we had done nothing, because we didn ' t get the REP. D-6 we'd taken 72 pictures . D- 4 , D- 7 we ' d had completed 405, 408, 409, 410, 410a, 410b , 411, 414 , 420 , 422 , 423a, 423b , 424a , 425a. We had 16 minutes and 8 seconds of Jeo~~f6i~tWon. ~
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