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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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137 • Cooper And I read analog. My analog read beautiful , but he couldn ' t read out digital and that ' s impossible because the analog data comes from the di gital da ta . I could even tell where it was . It was s i tting out on Meritt Island, wasn't it? I ' ll bet--it wa s accurate enough--I ' ll bet you that you could almost t ell what building it was in. It looked like it was r ight out here in the south part of the complex here . Conrad Where wer e we receiving music f r om? Cooper We got a little Chinese HF br oadcast every now and then. Peoples program. Conrad We went through these radar tests just drif ting around out there . Cooper Oh, yes , they were trying to jam our r adios . Everytime we went over the China area . Conrad I had the decided impression that they were t r ying to jam our UHF. So it was either that or--oh, yes , where was it where we heard the radar on the r adio . Cooper China. Conrad No , we were along the fringes of Russia , but we went over China. We were over something like Indi a . Cooper We wer e coming right over the Tibet- - the hi gh Tibet QWflO
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