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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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Boy, I ' ve never seen such fantastic big areas covered by .thunderstorms . Just , tremenious ! And they were big, each individual CB lookei like it was maybe 50 to 100 miles across and just whole columns of them stacked around. They must have really been. ... Conrad Okay , about the only other thing that I can think of that we did in the test nature there--was wanted to and did fire the oams Squibb on the regul ator , and you can ' t hear it . And every other Squibb--every other thing that we ever fired we could hear . But that one we couldn' t hear. Cooper That simulator was really good on that SEP OAMS , SEP ELECT, and SEP ADAPT . Simulator could be a lot louder on the SEP ADAPT. That thing really takes off . Conrad How do you want to cover the reentry phase? Because that's about it. I ' ve got one other comment, but this one is written after landing. It ' s the . HF whip antenna didn't deploy. FJDENTIAt
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