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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.
“Open Minds”1 page
195EMftA1. ,, which gave me one little old tweak of suspicion there that something was wrong right there on the roll bug. At that point then, I rolled 90 to see if I could get on that too , the down range needle. The cross range needle moved in some from the right. It had been out . . . not completely full scale, but ' I quite a ways out . It moved in slightly but not much. Down range needle, let's see , I don't believe it ever moved up · from there on and then at that point when I saw that the 90 wasn ' t going to hold it in there, I said I was going back to the nominal bank angle. I went back t o the 53 but then put in 60 . . . . 67 degrees bank right, to see if I can get the roll bug to change . It didn ' t change at that time so cross range was still indicating that I should be banked left so I went back to my bank left to see if I can kill off the cross range. I knew at that point that something was really seriously - 0llg and I was just trying to hold it as nominal as possible . I shoul d have probably at that time since I was already passed the time of reverse bank angle, I probably shoul d have gone ahead and hel d that , but that was a mistake, I probably should have gone ahead and held that 67 degrees bank right, and •
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