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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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--- Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad We'd probably wound up 45 miles from the carrier- That going to the 90 degrees for the time period that we did cost us 80 something miles . Otherwise, we flew the ~ The,.....wholy ning is if we hadn't tried following the computer we would never have known ,,/ Yes, and I'll tell you one thing. I ' m still con vinced right now sitting in this room that computer will bring you right in to where you want to go if you have the right load in it, because it just \worked magnificently. It came in just like it was supposed to and it did it on boost, too . I was really sold on it. I think the computations in that computer are accurate enough for the kind of work that a guy can do onboard the spacecraft, and··it ' s a darn fine piece of equipment and it was working well . We're the first ones to get a good look at 7 and it worked just l ike it was supposed to . If it had the parameters in it we'd have split the Cooper FCSD Rep Cooper ship right up the middle . I think so. I think it's just a dirty shame. What was the cross- range needle doing? Cross- range was showing that·we needed left bank in there--that we needed to move to the left. In other
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