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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.
168 5 . 1 ~ -36 Events Cooper Conrad FCSD Rep Conrad Cooper Conrad • 5 . 0 RETROFIRE TR- 36 TR-36 is not right . There ' s no aft- f i rjng thrusters verification . That ' s for OAMS . And thEre was no TR- 22 either because that was for OAMS , nor was there a TR- 13 or 12. What we had was a TR- 27 clock set over Carnarvon . You started your event t imer at TR- 27? ThatsI because we changed from 122- 1 to 121-1. We went r ight down the pre- retro checklist before that by the numbers , and we had what we call a ~R-36 which was nothing more than pick up the event timer . So we had the pre-retro checkli s t complete before Carnarvon . That ' s when t hey glitched us , and I 1 m going to complain about this one . We had a valid load in the comput er and a valid TR when we left the States on Rev 120, and I see absolutely no reason if those guys don ' t know what the heck our orbit is aft er 120 of them up there , that they had to go ahead and send a quick up- date over Carnarvon -- Yes . -- I f elt that screwed us . I still want to know what happened.
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