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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.
Conr ad FCSD Rep Conrad Cooper I can't sey too much f or 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 f or us and we alweys knew that we had the platform i n good alinement before retrofire . We knew we were right on in yaw al l the wey down the line, and we could just name the stars and knew that t hey were just going to come right down the middle of the pipe , and watch them go . It worked real well . How long did you aline the platform for r etrofire? Well, we really alined it about 1½ orbits . 1 We powered up for~ and we actually were alining for an orbit and a half before retrofire . All the alinement and everything was done on the RCS system. Let me sey this on this alining. We found that we couldn 1 t see any decrease at all in the RCS quantity after an orbit and a half . We were doing it in horizon scan , BEF, and then using the pulse mode in the horizon scan to give you the fine control within the horizon scan to really keep the needles closely centered. Now you can do the same thing just in pulse , but if you neglect it for just a minute, the horizon scan would hold it in there real close . It wouldn 1 t L --
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