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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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  • p. 48 …Conrad And when the Platform is alined and you ' re zero- zero- zero , boy, oh boy…
  • p. 149 144 this gu.y just says, "I ' m sending a DCS update , " and WHAM! her e…
  • p. 174 …I'm sending you a new load and a new TR. Stand by." Boy, we were…
  • p. 175 …Boy , that was a heck of a thing to do, and I really that darn I…
  • p. 177 …I 'm r eally mad about that ! Cooper Then unscheduled and everything else - - Conrad I don…
  • p. 206 …I 'm suxe the o2 HIGH RATE and the REPRESS it helped to have on all…
208 CONEIDENJIAl
F'CSD REP
Conrad
Cooper
Conrad
Cooper
Conrad
Cooper
we landed.
Never got over a pound?
Never got over a pound I don ' t believe.
Then we ca.me OFF on the repress and we opened ..
our face plates,
Then we opened our face plates and tcok a sniff in
there. It didn't smell to bad . I had a little
smell of RCS fumes. Now mind you we were s ealed
off at 2000 so I know it didn't come in on the
water. The RCS fumes that were in there came in
there at 27000 when we opened the vent and the
inlet snorkel so I ' m stil l -- if the structure
would take jt, I really think you should come in
and leave that inlet snorkel and that vent
closed. If you did that you would ha-re a clean,
cold cabin when you.hit the water. Okay, now .
I didn't really think it was as object ionable .
No, it wasn't objectionable.
It was cool. One thing we might add ,:ight here
right now, that we didn ' t cover back :.n the pre
retro area was trat we went the full cold on
everythi ng. We had that cabin so cold , and we went
to cabin fan and so that the cagin wae1 about, wha t ,
40 degrees, 50 degrees.

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