Documents / Official release
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
200 CQNFIDENTiAL FCSD Rep Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad You don ' t use the reentry command? Heck no! No, no that's useless . We had fuel up the kazoo . We had all kinds of fuel . We figured to just go into RATE COMMAND. That ' s exactly what -- to see how smooth a reentry you could make . The only thing we deviated from our very carefully calculated preflight plan was that I , ins tead of going to dual ring RCS, I put the drog~e out at 70K. We just had that step backwards betwee:1 50 and 70K . There must be a hold over from Mercury there some where , too , still getting to me . Okay , now the next most important thing was that at 50 000 or shortly thereafter, we went ·;o repress . Gordo turned on the REPRESS and I hit ·;he o2 HIGH RATE , and as we planned you know , we wHr e not going to vent the cabin or open the inlet snorkel , and man , going through 27 000 feet that neEidle hit zero faster than you can say "Jack Robinson." That cabin came down from 5 paid to nothing and I said "Holy Christmas" ; it came down so fast t hat I was really humping to get the ... . . I wanted to get the
Not linked to a story yet.
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 223 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.