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Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 1965 · 223 pages · text from the file's own layer

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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Cooper So they wanted to keep the platform warmed up also .
So we went for some approximately 20 hours with the
platform warm-running- up.
Conrad In drifting flight .
Cooper In drifting flight. So what we did- we caged the
platform, brought it up to cage and the~ we just went
to orbit rate. Left it in orbit rate and we caged it
at a time when were just guessing pretty close to o7o1o
and then went to orbit rate . Some 20 l'..ours later drifting
all around, - tumbling all over the sky, -·all over t he
places-
Conrad It was amazing how close the pl atform 1,,as .
Cooper The platform was almost right on what cur attitude was
after that many hours of orbital rate errors and drift
etc . etc. added in to there and it still was a good
relative attitude indicator I thought it was really good.
Conrad In all three a.xis it stayed on. I was pretty surprised.
Cooper I really thought that was quite good. That platform really
behaved well and it really took a l ot of abuse. Dif-
ferent times we powered it up- in drift- did all kinds
of things. You couldn't have mistreated it more if
you tried. Alining the platform very straightforward.
We alined it in BEF. First of all , we went right to

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