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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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143 ,,. Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper ::. And the computer was in reentry and I said, "Golly," and I swi tched that thing to pr elaunch and he said the loads in and validated , and I didn't get a DCS light . And I ' d gotten a DCS light everytime . We never f ailed to get a DCS light . And I was never reall y convinced even when we checked the two cores that the l oad wa s r ight that he put up there , but I guess it was . Tha t ' s been checked out . We did have the right load in the computer. That procedure is r eal ly poor , very , ver y poor . I don ' t understand . ... We had agreed and agreed and agreed that nobody would send a DCS load or anything without permission f r om you first--t i ll they cleared with you first . And he just right out of the clear blue sky with 12 minutes-- something like that to go to retro . 27 . 27 was it? Well , anyway , it ' s getting down darn close . Here we were all l i ned--all set up to go and everything all squared away and what we thought was a real proper load out of the Cape . Had gone into reentry and here we wer e all set . Then here -CQNElQ f=.W+tAL
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