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Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 1965 · 223 pages · text from the file's own layer

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
Cooper
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words, you're flying opposite. You're flying your
needle to. In other words, you' re flyir.g back
course ILS on lateral and you ' re flying a standard
ILS on the glide slope--front course IL~,. The
cross-range needle was showing off to the right,
which indicated that we needed to bank Jeft , which
is exactly right , That's just exactly right. We
hit 10 miles short. We never did get t he cross
range--cross-range was coming in--cross--range did
move in on us. Down-range, I don't believe, ever
really moved . Cross-range did move in ~1ome on us,
and that's when I went back to the nominal. I
thought, well, we're past the time to rEiverse bank
angle. Maybe I ought to roll right. So, I rolled
over to the right side and said, no , by golly, I'm
still going to follow the cross- range. At least
it's giving us the proper indications, l believe .
So, I rolled back in to the left bank, ,rhich was
smart because we still hit slightly to t he right.
Were we off to the north or the south, Pete? I had
it all figured out one time.
I don't really know Gordo. I didn ' t pa;i, any a tten
tion to the cross-range needle.
Anyway, the way I had it figured out here the other

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