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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.
ONFIDEITTIAL 4 197 hardly believe it. So , I didn't have any trouble controlling or... I just didn't think about havingf j I I it on there. Pete noticed the g's more t han I did because he wasn ' t as busy, I guess , as I was. 6.3 Spacecraft Control Cooper Spacecraft control was beautiful . There was no problem at all. I was on single ring DIRECT and then had gone fairly late down in the guidance program there when the oscillations got to be often enough in there that it was taking a little concen tration to damp the oscillations as well as to watch the guidance. I just went over the single ring ACME or RATE COMMAND ACME and let the RATE COMMAND damp the oscillations and I was doing the steering, with the RATE COMMAND also . Still single ring. 6.4 100K Feet Cooper Let ' s see, at a 100K the altimeter ca.me off the peg very shortly thereafter . I was going to arm both RCS rings, bringing on ring B to ACME .at 70K and instead I deliberately, calmly, cooly, and del ibera tely deployed the drogue chutes . And it worked beautifully. Most stable drogue chute I ever saw. It squidde~ just like a supersonic drogue test that were done in Mercury that I saw. In fact, 70 was
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