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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.
1856NFIDENTIA[ . Cooper •.• to get on down to it because it told me-- Conrad We were just sitting there waiting for the needle to come up like we had seen it do a million_.:t.ime -- - -------in the same situation. It never came off the peg. Then , we got in a little discussion, you know. I fel t that we ought to go to full lift because I thought something was wrong with guidance . Gordo agreed that something was wrong with guidance but he reall y t hought maybe we really had over- shot . I'm sure the retros were on time and they were nominal , almost. So , we final l y wound up going back to the nominal l ift vect or- - Cooper I went back to the nominal bank angle, which we had agreed we ' d go to i f anything happened . We had agreed with FOD that if anything happened throughout re entry--something was wrong with guidance-- Conrad We flew-- Cooper --we would go back to the nominal bank angle , that we wouldn't take any great abnormal- type situation. We woul d go back to t he nominal bank angle, so that in the event they lost communication with us or something screwed completely up in the reentry, they would know that we used as near as possible to the nominal bank angle.
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