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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.
~t0EN,-IAL Cooper And we told McDivitt -- Conrad We didn ' t get a DCS light . Cooper We told McDivitt when we left Houston that everything I was all square and that we re going to Reentry Mode on the computer then. We did , and then at Carnarvon the CAP COM, before he even gave us a warning or asked us about anything or even checked to see what mode our computer was in, sent an up- date . Very , very poor. Conrad He said , "I'm sending you a new load and a new TR. Stand by." Boy, we were all over the thing trying to get it back to PRELAUNCH . I never got a DCS light on either the TR or the load . I quizzed him and I told him I didn't think the load went in. He said , 11No , the load was valid. " We r ead out a couple of I cores and checked TR , but I don t understand why we didn't get a DCS light . Now I won ' t understand it because we should have gotten two DCS lights . Cooper Yes . One for TR and one for - - Conrad I didn't get one the first time when he sent the TR, and I didn ' t get one when he sent the load . We were in the process of switching the computer to PRELAUNCH, and I think the el ectrpns got lost in the shuffle there . I gather that they took the computer
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