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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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196 GNr;l0ENTIA~ held that on in . It probably would have corrected us out a little better cross- range- wise, but the period of time that we were at 90 degrees trying to get the glide slope, to get onto the glide slope there, is what cost us that 86 miles. Had we held the nominal bank angle all the way ani ignored the computer, I think we would have hit v3ry, very near the carrier. But, we ... .at least we 1save the com puter a try. I think that if it had had the right values loaded in it , I think it would have done very well by us . The spacecraft behaved very well . Ionization, we got into that ionic layer. After the 280K point, we began -to really ionize quite a bit and got into a typical fire ball E•ffect back there although it didn ' t seem to me l1ke it was as much of a fire ball effect in this as it was in Mercury. It seemed a lot less . 6 .2 Acceleration Profile Cooper Acceleration profile, I noted the g ' s very early be f ore we got the 2g's on . I noted the g ' s felt pretty strong in there. I could feel them fairly severe now. I never felt at all from there on . I never even felt like we had any amount of g's on us until I noted we had seven and a ha:.f and I could ~0MFl0EI\JTIAL •
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