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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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145 :z Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper turn that darn thing off and leave the DCS circuit breaker off . Okay, the next thing before retrofire . I had one note here, just a second, at 7--Day 7 , 22 hours, and 30 minutes. We were on that real black night side way down there somewhere on the South American area . Remember we saw those tre mendous series of thunderstorms . Just fantastic , you could-- The brightest lightning I ' ve ever seen anywhere . It lit up the inside of the spacecraft . - - see hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of miles almost as far as you could see in any direction out the windows you could see lightning just lighting up-just blossoming everywhere . There were hundreds of miles of thunderstorms of which you could probably see at one time-you could probably see 20 or 25 thunderstorms light up at the same time . And I've got somewhere on the 16mm film . I opened the stops up, and I took pictures of the lightning. I don't know whet her it came out . They would just light the whole spacecraft up.
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