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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.

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was really good recepti on. And then tl:.ey were
playing 'Never on Sunday' and that faded out at
15 hours 08 minutes.
Cooper That was the best HF test we had .
Conrad Yes , and we started receiving the music again
coming around the other side of the wo1·ld at
15 hours 49 minutes. This must be 16::9. 14: 59?
14: 59, I got the wrong number in here J think. I'll
just make a note to check it. No, thi~ is 15:08,
15:49 which is about right half way arcund the world
and this number may be wrong.
Cooper Is that day 6?
Conrad Yes, check it and see if we got a note in the Flight
Plan. Day 6 at 1400, almost 1500. Then we did
some of these radar tests and for the 1ikes of
me to underst and do you know what was ~ome of the
discussion on why the radar didn't work after that .
Gee, it locked up so beautifully the first day on
the REP down there.
Cooper The one REP pass we had, man, things Jt;.s t worked
like a charm.
Conrad And it just never did work after that. We always
got a lock on.

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