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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.
11 i t Conrad RCSD REP Cooper FCSD REP Cooper FCSD REP Cooper edge of reading of any large gage and any fine reading that you had to read, you would never be able to read any numbers. It was exactly like the POGO we did all along on the program up at Ames and as the exact amplitude , I don ' t lmow, but was , . . . . . I think we don ' t want that ~ POGO. It was no par icu ar y upsetting to me , because I really was fai rly familiar with POGO having been through all that POGO program, but this thing kind of t i ckled me that we got it to see that we had still hadn ' t solved it , but I don ' t think . . . its something you don ' t want because if you had ot~er things going wrong during that period of t i me it would make it vecy difficult to say what you had wrong or what It didn ' t upset me , but it surprised me , you lmow, because I just wasn't expecting POGO. Wbat g- level would you estimate it to be? Well , we were sneaking right up there . I mean the POGO . Oh, it was right at about 5 g ' s . ·\1• Well , I mean plus or minus amplitude . Well I , my estimate on it was that it was something
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