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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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Conrad GCSD Fep Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad FCSD Rep Cooper L 179 Yes , those lines were useless as far as the horizon on it , because there wasn't any horizon out there . You had to use the 8-ball entirely? Yes. That was a pure instrument retro. I I You're darn right, boy. 11 guarantee you anytime you fire retros at night, you'd better have instru ments because you ' re not going to have a visual out the- window, because those RCS thrusters out there will just blind you. Yes, and this t alking about doing this stuff on rate needles and no ball and everything is a bunch of hog- wash. You'd better have the whole panel. You're darn right. Or you fire them in the daytime, with a good horizon . Let me see now. You rolled it upside down , and what did you hold? You held 20 degrees -- 20 , degrees until it s t art ed trimming out . Then, I'd } switch between rate and attitude . I ' d just hold that attitude and when I'd see a little tiny rat e creep in -- I was on single-ring pulse - - I'd just pulse that rate out. Of course, _: that was establishing my trim ./ angle right there. You'd see it on the rate. You'd
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