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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.
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162 Conrad Cooper FCSD REP Cooper FlDENTIA One and a half orbits. We really aline•d in about one and a half orbits. We powered up two and one half and thei:. actually, we were actual ly alining for about an cr bit and a half before retrofire. And we were on all the aline ment and everything was done on the RCc system. How about the preretro checklist? Let me say this on this alining. We fcund t hat we coul dn't even see any decrease at all jn RCS after an orbit and a half. The way we were doirg this we were doing it i n Horizon Scan BEF then using· the Rllse MJde in the H')rizon .Scan. To really keep tl:.ose needles real ly closely centered. Now, you can do the same thing in Tu.lse BEF, - but the Ibrizon Scan if you ne glect it for just a minute, the lbrizon. Scan would hold it in there real closely and wouldn't let you wander off anywhere in pitch. 00 F-t0E-N:f:t~L ....
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