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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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135FJD~TIAL ~ direction. Like I got a--in drifting flight I got 417 and 418 at 6 days 8 hours 41 minutes . I don ' t remember what that is . Cooper From here on , we just-- we drifted through this period of time and the only time we ever powered anything up was when the drift rates got up pretty high. We would power up, damp the rates , and power right back down , and hope we- - and did manage to keep somewhat attitude so we could get occasionally some pictures . For instance on--we did continue doing MSC-1 experiments which incidentally-- even in times of minimum power when they wanted us powered right down to our eyeballs they still left MSC- 1 on. I don ' t know how much fuel i t takes , but it always erks me if we had to have everything off why could they manage to leave that one on. Day 6 , 8 hours, 41 minutes we got D-4/D-7 417 , 418 , and 414 . Conrad Yes , on that one day, Day 6 , when they had the HF tests in Houston--0roadcast HF- - we had Houston on HF till 15 hours 59 minutes 00 seconds and this included the remoting through Ascension,and the remoting through Ascension was beautiful . That
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