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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.
134 Conrad On S-8, D-13 we completed all tests although we didn ' t see the targets several times. On S- 1 we completed it. S-5 and S-6 we'd taken three maga zines for a total of 210+ pictures . S-7 we had 23 pictures or 8 groups that they had ~anted plus we had taken cal card picture. The M-1 broke at 4 days and some odd hours, and I don ' t know the exact time . M-3 didn't make any difference. MSC-1 we did on day one , three, and four. Apollo-we got Landmarks 207, 8, 121 and 13. We'd done 4 cabin lighting surveys. The humidity sensor we read at least once a day, and the 16mm film we had one and a quarter magazines shot up which is general stuff. That was what we had completed in 5 days. Then from there on, we went through this big drill of sending up of all kinds of experiments but don't expend any fuel on them. An so we were pretty well restricted to S-5, S-6, and S-7 type phJtographs which was about all we got. Cooper Catch as catch can. Conrad We marked down all this other stuff. W1~ did catch a D-4/D-7 occasionally if it was the ri1sht sort of thing-if we were sort of pointed in the right
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