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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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188 Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad I Because that ' s exactly the way things ar E' all set up in the math flow. You' 11 get that anc. then very shortly thereafter if you hold the nomim.l bank angle it will take a little bit of time End it will start easing on up. And you ' ll get an idea by the rate of ea~ing up . If you roll to the 90, of course, in thai position you ' ll get to it in a big rush, but you \\-ant to be careful not to overshoot . You'll never get back. But, then when I held the nominal bank angl e and it didn ' t come up and didn't come up , then I rolled to the 90 to see if I was going to be able to bring it up. Of course, by this time I realized that when I didn't see it come up something wa.s really wrong. I then went back to the nominal . Fortunately, that period that we held at the nominal is what carried us down as near as it did. The short period that we were at 90, of course , is where ~e were really digging in-- It cost us 83 miles, probably, because I think if .. we had flown the nominal bank angle all the way that we'd have really wound up real close to the darn carrier.
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