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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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172 Cet-ctftDEt~rrt~ Cooper And t hen saying this is your final load. Verify - Conrad Bad news. I 'm r eally mad about that ! Cooper Then unscheduled and everything else - - Conrad I don ' t blame that guy at Carnarvon because he wasn ' t expecting to send us a load either . I hlame Houston. Houston sent it down to them at the las·; minute , obviously, and he was doi ng the best he could and he got rushed. The whole thing we wanted to do on r eentry and the reason we stowed early md sat there with nothing to do was to make sure that we were never rushed . We weren't until the guy sent that l oad . And there we were , 27 minutes fr:>m retrofire , and I r eally wasn't convinced we had th~ right load in the computer even when we left Carnar von. Boy, I Im really mad at that ! Cooper Conrad I Okay. Ive got some recommendations. I think we ought to rewrite our TR- 256 check- off list because there are too many things that happen en it at TR- 5 and TR- 256 . We changed the procedure in f light I knew I was going to do it that way ar.yhow , in t hat I brought up the main batteries early. I brought them on at 7 minutes . I verified the computer in
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