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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.
158 .. FCSD REP How about the power up? Cooper I think that the power up went just r :Lght straight forward. Conrad Yessir, I've the checklist right here. Just like the insertion checklist we went by the numbers and I actually marked it off as we did it and you can see it right there. I went through power off check off list and we went right down the thing we had. Our checkoff list is wrong and we had changes in it right h,~re. We had Attitude Indicator with FDI, Computer :?ower-ON, Computer to PRELADNCH, Platform- CAGE, Scanners :?RIMARY, Rate Gyros ON and it should read Attitude Indicator with FDI Rate Gyros-ON, Computer in the PRELADNCH MO:)E, Computer Power-ON Platform, Scanner etc. Cooper The arrangement of it was wrong. Conrad Yes, the arrangement was wrong. But w,~ did it just by the numbers right here. And it was completely straight forward. Interesting note on the Plat.form, we went for many days with the platform powered do,.;n to that it got as cold soaked as it was ever goi~~ to get and the platform took the maximum time. Heat dxop out took exactly 25 minutes and then it was a l :Lttle slow coming in. On the cold starts it took 28 minutes to get the
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