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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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186 Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper FCSD Rep Conrad Cooper Now , what really hurt there though was that he sat there at the nominal bank angle of 53 degrees .. until we got to, say, 2 1/2 g's , which is a fair .long time through the guidance... . When he elected to roll to the 90 degree bank angle, that' s when we were getting the most lift. Boy, we dug in-- I 111 tell you we shot up there to 7 1/2 g ' s in nothing flat. It was at about that time that we rolled back out again, you see . We ' d lost the main lift that we were going to get out of it, but, as it is, I don't think we did so badly ·Ninding up 83 miles short. I understand they were targeting 240 miles short . That's apparently what the load they had in the computer turned out to be--erroneously put in a.t 240 miles short . Yes , they were off by a factor of 240 miles . So , if we had followed the computer e:icactly we'd have been a lot further shorter than we were. Fortunately, we recognized that somet:1ing was amiss. Did that down-range needle ever do an;rthing? No, I don ' t think it moved at all, I don ' t think it ever really moved. I think one time it moved a little, but I really don ' t think ElQENllAt •
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