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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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198 6.5 50K Feet Cooper FCSD Rep Cooper Conrad Cooper the point where he put the Mercury d:t'ogue out . It squidded a couple of times very nicely and stabilized out and was just beautiful . . . .We nev,3r had any oscillations on it or anything. It was just as nice as it could be. By 50K we had both RCS rings .ON, jus·: letting them feed on out and then were blipping away out there and the spacecraft just came right s 1;raight down . No oscillation or anything. What kind of oscillation on drogue dnployment . . . . what would you estimate the I don 1·t think we had any at all . I c.on ' t think we had a single oscillation real ly, wher. we deployed the drogue, do you? Oh yeah. It oscillated but the . . . . . it was sort of high frequency and low amplitude . That's just what I say. I mean it was just kind of like .. . ..It was just kind of like -- a little quiver on the line. Like when you pluck a bow string, you know , the string . . .. the spacecraft would kind of go like this but not any- amount of -- These guys were talking about 40 degr3e yaw anglesConrad
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