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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.

2. 5 ECS
Conrad
Cooper
Conr ad
Cooper
Conrad
Cooper
2 . 7 Wind Shear
Cooper
2 . 8 DCS Updates
Cooper
FCSD REP
Conrad
9CONFICtleNTIA~ •
Right on the button.
ECS was right on the money, no problem at all .
Max Q we ' ve already stated .
The cabin s ealed a little bit high like they said
it would . I forget the number. It was about 5.8.
About 5.8 or 9 and just gradually dwindled back down .
And just after we got in there by the time I looked
at it again after insertion everything it bled down
on our gage to 4.9, our gage read a little low . I
think the actual reading , you will pr obably find
the cabin actually was 5.1 1 but the whole rest of
t he flight the gage never budged off the 4.9.
The gage stayed right there like it was glued .
The wind shear , we had none and , certainly nothing
that we could tell , but as I understand we ' ve been
told that for that day anyway we had almost negible
wind shear.
DCS updates were right on time .
You had two updates?
1 plus 45 , 2 plus 25 .
2 , 9 Engine 1 Operat i on
Cooper The engine 1 operation couldn ' t have been better,
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