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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.
FCSD Rep Conrad Cooper Conrad FCSD Rep Cooper let you wander off anywhere in pi tch and roll . You had to watch the yaw very carefully, of course , but you could concentrate on doing other things for just a few seconds time and you didn ' t get your errors built up into it . You still have the iulse correc tion within the wider band of t he horizon scan . We found that little teensy little blips to make your correction and I don ' t think we were u:.:irig any fuel at all . Did you get any reading on how much yoi. did use? I checked this morning and it ' s not i n yet . I don ' t know how much fuel . We used Ring A sir.ce we powered it up at 2 orbits , over Carnarvon the first time . What I r ecall from the preretro checkl::.st - - it commenced at Carnarvon one pass before r eentry. In other words , we went an orbit and a ha:.f on the RCS system -- Ring A. Most of that time wEi were alining. We used dual ring RCS rate command for r etrofire only. Then we turned Ring B off and d:_d the whole reentry on ring A. Pulse . You operated Ring A all the way? The last I saw of Ring A in the r eentr;;r, down before
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