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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.
we went to drogue chute out, I still couldn't see any decrease in Ring A. Conrad Well, I'm not sure that Ring A wasn ' t out of fuel , somewhere around between 100 000 on down. But the other ring wasn ' t . I know darn well it wasn't . Cooper What do you mean it was? It wasn ' t out before we put the other ring in at all. Conrad No . I know it wasn ' t out before we put the other ring in . Cooper Did you take a look at it around 100 000? Conrad Yes . I know the thrusters were firing. It was firing. Cooper Well, the gauge indicated it still had all kinds of fuel lef t ir1 it just before 100 000 . Conrad ! Well, thats regulated pressure . Cooper Yes , it ' s pressure . Conrad It's not going to tell you anything in the way of fuel usage . You have to see source pressure to find out what -- we don't have that . Cooper Well , you would - - Conrad I'm not sure that Ring A didn't run out of fuel, but if it did , it did it somewhere around the time we put the other ring on , because we never got any
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