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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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142 Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad CONFIDEJ\ITr other thing is is when you hit the thrusters you can very definitely tell from the sound that some were putting out· more than others. I think that ' s what was giving us the yaw roll off was that in pairs of thruster of one would be strong maybe and one weak and would give you couplings . That was exactly what was happening. ~'.hey were cross coupling. It was really messy. And then I 1ve got down here the roll.. I have nothing else in the book until we start talking about retro here and the changes that we decided to go into 121- 1 instead of 122 . And t here would be 27 minutes over Carnarvon instead of 36 and all the power up sequence . Now , I ' ve got one comment . We came up over Carnarvon and when I hi:.d-- when we left the Cape on the Rev going into retrofire a transmitted a val id load up t o the sJacecraft and I called McDivitt and I said , "I ' m putting the Computer into Reentry," and we came up over Carnarvon and the guy says , "Stand by. I ' m going to update you computer with a new load . Boom!" GE>NFH:)ENffA L '
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