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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.
192 Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad FCSD Rep Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad ~hJEIDE~TlAL .. but everything else worked like the Eimulator timewise, but that time period seemed extremely short to me in comparison to simul ator reentry. Yes, it sure did to me. Yes. Now we can go back and look at the times and see what the actual times were to these-- Maybe just in real time- - This might have been the real - time case to make- How about the altimeter? It worked very poorl y on lift-off. It had been very jerky and jumped all around but it was smooth as a bell. Boy, it came off the peg. It locked up at 96 000. What was it? It did it in the alti tude chamber. 96 800 feet or something like that. It didn't ever run to 100 000 and it never had. It didn't do that in the altitude cha.rlber, and it quit where it always quit- -96 800. I t came off the peg smooth and just wound right on down. No jump ing or jittering. It was right with the barostats comine: down . Yes, it was right with the barostats coming down. I called the altimeter off the peg to Gordo and he put the landing arm on, which was roushl y at
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