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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.
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=- 171 Cooper Yes . It 's major enought that , by gol l y , my recom mendations exactly like Pete ' s . From now on my rec omendation is Conrad That did it . Cooper -- that the DCS circuit breaker is left in the OFF position. Conrad Yes . The next time I ever go for the reentry and we put a valid load i n the computer, I'm going to turn the DCS off so they can ' t screw it up again without me turning it back on . Coop_er Absolutely. Turn that circuit breaker to the OFF position. Conrad That's right . I 'd rather miss a load and go with the earlier one. I still can ' t believe that after 120 orbits they didn't know exactly what our param eters were for orbit . I don't even know why they needed that track over the United States the last pass . They 'd been tracking us all night long. They ' d been tracking us for 8 days, and they ought to know where the heck we were . If they want to do it at the last minute, then let's plan on loading the computer at Carnarvon and not load the computer at the Cape . This loading it at the Cape and then chang ing it again at Carnarvon has got to go . GON.flDENTIAL
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