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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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Cooper Conrad 5 . 3 T - 1-=-It- Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper 173 REENTRY again, of course, and squib batteries . We were already on the RCS system, so we didn 1 t have to bring-them on, but I did bring on the other ring at that point . At the 256 , we wanted to go platform to ORB RATE as late as possible, so we did that after we got TR- 256 function light -- the attitude indicator light -- and that showed we had all our clocks were in sync ..just perfectly. There wasn I t a clock in the spacecraft that wasn ' t in sync . The TR was in sync with the event timer and they were in sync with our back- up watches . There was no doubt in our minds that everything in the TRS system was working right down the line and that we were working right down the line. We went to retro attitude punched the -- Went to retro attitude, set up the whole thing for • the reentry , and at TR- 1 -- TR- 1, SEP OAMS, SEP ELEC , SEP ADAP, four squibs on - At TR- 30 seconds -- Arm retro. We already had that . I've al ways made it a procedure to arm auto- retro at TR- 5 seconds Let's see -- SEP OAMS , SEP ELEC, SEP ADAP -- we did a t0NilQE i L
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