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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.
191 FCSD Rep Cooper FCSD Rep Cooper FCSD Rep Conrad day the cross-range needle was indicating properly. The down-range needle , when it came on, stayed in the same place all the time--all the way through? Yes. Full- scale. Full- scale . Right. Just about full-scale on the low range . Okay. How about any of the up- dating done during reentry? We got all the times . We got all the times just fine and I wrote them all down . They gave us enter blackout at 16: 14, out of blackout at 21:20, reverse bank at 19:25, bank left 54, and bank right 68 . The drogue time was 22+05, and the main time was 23+48 , They were all good times. I had them all written down. No problem. They got the up dates in before blackout and in plenty of time be fore blackout, as a matter of fact . We whistled right in there. No sweat on the times . I guess maybe we went to the 90 degree bank or something like that , but from about the time of lg to the time of guidance locking out, which is roughly 100K and t he altimeter coming· off the peg, man, I don't knov whether it was just because we did it for real
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