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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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174 CO~EIDENTI L Conrad FCSD Rep Conrad 5.4 T - 0=-R- Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conr ad LetsI see, retro rockets squib all four armed at TR- 3O, arm auto- retros at about TR- 5 seconds Ye s . TR- 5 . And I absolutely positively go on record that the manual retro- fire button was pushed, because I pushed it four times at one second ani the COMP l ight went green at -- One second after auto? No . One second after the retros actual l y fired. At TR- O' spacecraft attitude was right on the money. Ther e were no rates . Control mode was dual RCS I've got a couple of comment s about the retro s . There ' s no doubt in my mind that the number 3 retro stopped firing at l east a half a second before the number 4 retro started t o fire . It sure did. And there was another one in there -- There was no overlap . iI I m pretty sure that between the second and the l t hird , there was no overlap - Between 2 and 3. -- but they were much closer together than between 3 and 4 .
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