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Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 1965 · 223 pages · text from the file's own layer

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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drogue just as the barostat came on. It came on
right at 10.6 , right on the money. I punched the
main , deployed the main just as the baros tat came
on. As we have already said , the main deployed.....
Conrad There seemed like an awful long time to me though
from the time you punched the main for it to go
through the sequence . It seemed like an eternity
for the Rand R can to blow .
Cooper Well , you could see the sequence going on out there,
all this thing trundling out and all the long lines
going out , and all the sequence happening, and then
the main coming out .
Conrad It was really pretty though .
Cooper Well, I guess I was anticipating.
Conrad It was just like in that picture .
Cooper You see all this stuff coming out, you know , that
drawing where it shows all the cy~les of the stuff
coming out. Just like advertised.
6.9 Main Chute Deployment
Cooper We reported when we had a drogue, when we had a good
main. The main came out nominally. De- reefed ex
actly on time .... .
Conrad Beautiful thing. No gores out, no nothing, rips or
anything, nothing. It was just nominal all the way.
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