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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.
Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad 159€0NftDENTIAL attitude light. It took 3 minutes after the fast heat drop out . And then I noticed after that was the first time after we did that- powered it up two or three times why the platform came in at 25 minutes of a f ast heat drop out. And then ;x ~gat after tha t it would start to cage up and you ' d get the Attitude Light on and you ' d be in business with the Platformt but that platform performed beautifully. Well ~ I might make just one remark on the platform. Some thing that I thought was extremely interesting to me. People have talked about the bad platform drift and everything but we had one occasion we had our platform powered for some 18 or 20 hours . Let ' s see t why did we do that? Because they wanted us to- Oh, it was after we tumbled up there with that OAMS check which they really didn't think out too well and they thought we might lose our gas volume. We were about to lose the gas volume by starting to vent again so they wanted us to power up , bring the power up to a pretty high level to keep below the vent pressure on the hydrogen. Yes , to keep the platform warmed up incase we had to-
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