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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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138 area there , and we were just on the south edge of China. Conxad Have you ever t axied close by radar? You can hear i t on radio , i t goes "beep , beep, beep, beep," and you can even clock the antenna sweep , and you can get about three pulses . . . . "Beep ,beep ,beep," and then , "beep, beep , beep" , and you can see that old antenna down there on the ground going around and we could hear the UHF as big as heck and we were way up in the middle of no place, and I know darn well it must have been--Russian radar. Cooper We were up on the high of southern China. High plains area. Conxad Okay, then we ran another eXPeriment summary, and this eXPeriment summary was for the sixth day. And on the D- 6 we did not see 135 which was the Laser. Laser out of White Sands . Never did see that darn Laser . And the D-4/D-7 we caught a 417, 418, and on S-6 we ' d taken five more pictures . On S-5 we'd t aken 43 more pictures and on S-7 we ' d taken one more storm or two pictures . On S-8 , D- 13 I have no- - we didn't get to mark the targets , but we may have gotten the 70mm pictures of them that
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