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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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on the order of maybe three quarters of a g . Well, I
don I t !mow whether it was that high c,r not .
Conrad I thought it was at least a half , if not better .
Apparently it wasn't that high . I ws.s really
surprised. Like I say, we were really getting the
ramrod out of it.
Cooper s beyond what we selected as we th~ht
should be the cutoff. It was more tr.an wh~ we
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had selected at Ames as being max acc7.
in this.I passed up ver b • there one of
the first things that happened immediately about
the time that we got the pitch program was the
IGS Stage 2 fuel needle failed in thE full -max
deflection position. And it came back on and was
reading after staging briefly and thEn failed again
during staging. It was intermittent .
2. 11 Engine 2 Status
Cooper Engine 2 status stayed ... was perfect . There was
not anything wrong at all.
2.12 Acceleration G' s
Cooper Acceleration g ' s were right on the piofile , were
certainly very pleasant. Nothing wrong at all with them.
2. 13 BECO

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