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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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EM=FfAL 139 they wanted . I had to point--I may have all spacecraft in the picture . I don ' t know-we were just drifting by this one . And then at 11 hours 30 minutes on the sixth day , we went through this crank up this number 2 fuel cell again after it had been shut down for 20 hours . They wanted to bring it up by warming up the coolant loop so we went through this drill of shutting off the Primary Cooling Valve Circuit Breaker and opening the Rad Flow to BYPASS so that we could bypass the SECONDARY LOOP and let it warm up a bit . Then we went through the purge procedures and brought the fuel cell on the l i ne . And i t came on pretty good . Conrad We never got any of the rest of the experiments on that day. They wanted general photos of the U. S. and so forth , D- 6 1 s and we just were never in position . We were always pointed straight up or something like that . Then we had another UHF test leaving the States and on the seventh day and we lost HF on the seventh day at 16 hours and 27 minutes and 00 seconds . I had the Squelch set on 4 , and I brought the Squelch up higher and ..
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