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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.
Cooper,. Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad 199 and stuff like -- Nothing like that. I bet you couldn't make it any more than 2 or 3 or 4 degrees. Yes , I would say 5 at the most . Now I don't have any horizon or anything to reference this to . All I ' m doing is watching the drogue . But I didn ' t have any physical sensations , or -- There were no physical sensations of any kind of oscillations. The frequency was too high to ever get any amplitudes that big. We were just sitting there and the drogue looked steady to me , see, and all I could see was the nose and the shrouds zacking back and forth like that . Ob, sort of around, and , you know . They were both at pitch and yaw.. .but I felt comfortable all the time . I didn't have any idea that we were really going to -- It was well stabilized. Stable as a rock Now, I'll tell you that RCS was really working. Now, we were in RATE COMMAND not REENTRY RATE COM MAND, we were in RATE COMMAND. So , it would . I mean, it was firing full time . Yes, it was really working. We were outside the rate command bands .
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