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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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180 FCSD Rep Cooper Conrad Cooper Conr ad C0oper FCSD Rep Cooper Conrad see the pitch rate needle start to mo're just a l ittle tiny bit . That was showing you that you weren ' t quite on trim. Then I'd tweek it and it would sit right there, and it would just start trim- ming itself out on the ball. When it trimmed out you damped the rates. You were in single- ring di rect? Well , at 400 KI went to single- ring direct . Yes , we were in pulse Yes, single- ring pulse . Single- r i ng pulse to 400 K -- Then I went to RATE COMMAND on the attitude control selector and took the ACME RCS switch to direct -- one to direct,! the other one was to off. Then I used , ) single- ring direct throughout the ree'.ltry , until very late when the oscillations got so rapid that 1· had to concentrate too much on them rather than the attitude . Then I went into ACME just put the RCS switch to ACME and then flew the attitude with the stick and allowed the RCS to damp the oscillations. Still one ring? Still one ring. We di dn't go on dual- rings until below 70 000 feet .
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