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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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  • p. 7 …cool the whole time. ECS was good. Never any problem with it . Sounds , I thought the…
  • p. 9 …that I had written u~ before and never got corrected, and they were the whole flight…
  • p. 14 …rest of t he flight the gage never budged off the 4.9. The gage stayed…
  • p. 16 …that you had to read, you would never be able to read any numbers. It was…
  • p. 18 …s ee the flash at the brig. Never saw a thing and I wasn't aware…
  • p. 20 …There was never through boost or second stage was there ever any rate except that one…
  • p. 22 …We never did get a reading on that, but whatever the total propulsive expulsion system wasn…
  • p. 25 …We never got a GO/NO GO beeause we lost our number 1 radio in about…
  • p. 30 …And had we never gotten our communications back we would have known tha t we were…
  • p. 32 …We heard every thruster on the whol e f l ight It never occurred in my…
  • p. 34 …There was never a time -- the only time the only fault we find was one or…
  • p. 36 …But we never did unstrap . We never unstrapped and never put the drogue pins in until…
  • p. 37 32 Cooper Conrad were never up . to reenter lready decided t hat I was not going…
  • p. 39 …But you never had any trouble ~ ting t o it. I didn ' t . / I let mine…
  • p. 40 …Conrad Where you coul d make the legstraps loose but you' d never disconnec t them…
  • p. 44 …So we never did get back to using it again . Cooper Well, we had other control…
  • p. 48 …See, we never had a simulator to show us . Never once did we have any darn…
  • p. 49 …horizon should look like through the window whic~ d requested several times and never got -- to…
  • p. 63 …Well , the range rate never got below a foo t per second . The range rate never…
  • p. 64 Cooper " Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad 59eNftOf We never got the point where it…
  • p. 72 …8, and a 59 of a 13~8 at .89 miles and we should have never…
  • p. 77 …I never had so much junk--we went wild. That '/s when we called up and…
  • p. 90 …I never saw it.
  • p. 95 …They never did call out a number on this nor did they have it listed here…
  • p. 96 …So , I guess they never did even call it up from the ground . You just saw…
  • p. 101 …We never did really get a good score . ThE·n at 18 : 50 again we alined…
  • p. 105 …So , from that point in time on we never used the hook-up that you can…
  • p. 106 …A second window scan was never done because the last 3 days of the flight we…
  • p. 112 …We never found it . That' s right. That ' s right. We never even found Venus on…
  • p. 121 …were supposed to track Nunki and we never could find it because it was-- It was…
  • p. 122 …Heck, we never navigated that way in the Navy. You go into star chart with local…
  • p. 128 …got to do anything else so we never got on that part of the flight plan…
  • p. 141 …And then tl:.ey were playing 'Never on Sunday' and that faded out at 15 hours…
  • p. 143 …the Laser. Laser out of White Sands . Never did see that darn Laser . And the D…
  • p. 144 …Conrad We never got any of the rest of the experiments on that day. They wanted…
  • p. 148 …We never f ailed to get a DCS light . And I was never reall y convinced…
  • p. 151 Boy, I ' ve never seen such fantastic big areas covered by .thunderstorms . Just , tremenious ! And they…
  • p. 153 …We never- - we always ran late on that . I ' d get the nap, but I'd…
  • p. 154 …We never used them in the whole flight. Cooper They are no good at all . Conrad…
  • p. 155 …The REP plan was never taken out and I never took the bag off the wall…
  • p. 170 …it somewhere around the time we put the other ring on , because we never got any
  • p. 171 …Cooper I ~ never was out of f uel before we put the other one on , 1…
  • p. 174 …I never got a DCS light on either the TR or the load . I quizzed him…
  • p. 177 …was to make sure that we were never rushed . We weren't until the guy sent…
  • p. 181 …Cooper You ' re never going to see anything out the wi ndow i n a night…
  • p. 187 …You see, it had been chaf:ing us in the dark so we never did see…
  • p. 190 …It never came off the peg. Then , we got in a little discussion, you know. I…
  • p. 193 …You'll never get back. But, then when I held the nominal bank angl e and…
  • p. 194 …t tried following the computer we would never have known ,,/ Yes, and I'll tell you…
  • p. 195 …We never did get t he cross range--cross-range was coming in--cross--range did…
  • p. 197 …It didn't ever run to 100 000 and it never had. It didn't do…
  • p. 201 …I never felt at all from there on . I never even felt like we had any…
  • p. 213 …Never got over a pound? Never got over a pound I don ' t believe. Then we…
  • p. 214 …Conrad It was never hot at any time. Cooper When we opened our face plates the…
  • p. 216 …Our HF antenna never did extend on the water. They don't lmow whats wrong with…
  • p. 217 …The one thing was, the blood pressure bulb wouldn ' t bleed down and Pete never could…
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Cooper
Conrad
FCSD REP
our old platform position which was BEF and started
right from there in lining in a fine line by BEF position
going out just- lining from there and we found that
we had quite a yaw error in it. We noted that-
That showed up in roll real fast .
So we noted then that our yaw- what we figured was our
yaw star one of them that we remember as our yaw star
was a little bit over to the right about 10 degrees.
So we just went to cage. Eased it over about 10 de
grees, uncaged it in BEF and sure enough then we went
to platform position in BEF showed the needles weren't
very far off. Right away they began to aline....
very closely and we had it alined very shortly.
Yes, I can't say too much for that star chart either,
boy, it was real comforting to have those yaw stars
and it turned out that Scorpio went right down the middle
of the tube for us. We just always knew that we had
the platform in good alinement be for retrofire. We knew
that we were right on in yaw all the way down that line
and we could just name the stars and we knew that they
were just going to come right down the middle by watching
them go and it worked real well.
How long did you aline the platform?

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