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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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194 6.1 400K Cooper Conrad Cooper 6 . 0 REENTRY By the time we hit 400K I was at fuL lift positi on from Retro Jett until there. Roll command gave a roll right and a roll command the bug just as it a lways does . Time correlation was r t ght on the money. 400K occurred right to the s econd when it was supposed to . Guidance initiate e>ccurred just at 280K at exactly the right time anc. it indica ted we had a right .... the azimuth needle indicated right and the down range needle indicated full scale it was well up into the thing. I would sey maybe half deflection. Yes . That was full scale . High sca]e was not - The bank angle was 53 degrees left bank which was our nominal bank angle which I went to a t guidance initiate and held 53 degrees l eft . ~he rool needle at this time the roll needle indicated off full right and vecy shortly thereafter then . . .. before I even got suspicious that we weren't getting down on this , the roll needle then crossed over the middle position and held there indicati ng we had the r ight bank angle there for a minute and then crossed full scale over to t he other side . . . . OhJEIDENTIAL
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