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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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183 5.6 Communications Cooper Conrad Cooper FCSD Rep Conrad Cooper Cooper Conrad t1'EITTIA7: ~ Communications were good throughout the whole re entry. We went into blackout right on time . Right on time. Yes, just right on the second when they said we' d go into blackout. We came out just exactly when they said we would.. The only thing was, when they asked us what our over - shoot or under-shoot was I ' ll be dam if I could t ell them at that point . I sure as heck didn't know with this computer t ell ing us one thing and yet it not doing the right thing. We'd better put the retrofire IVI readings in here . 269 aft , 010 l eft , 181 down . And that comes out amazingly close to a nominal combination . As a matter of fact, it shows that we should have had about a 60 degree bank. angle, and if you compensate the 6o degrees for the off- set it would have been 54 or 53-- Yes. Almost completely nominal. I think this chart's a handy gouge . It agrees with what the ground gave us. We didn' t fly it, of course, We flew the computer, but--
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