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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.
211tfYENifP! 7, 3 Communica tions Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper here that we might .. . we would suggest ma;ybe reshuffling a little there . The communications were excellent all the way , all the way down until impact and from there on we were hearing everybody in the whole darn world but nobody apparently was hearing us . Now, Houston read us twice on the water, but .... Houston read us twice . We transmitted both on UHF and we transmitted on HF. Our HF antenna never did extend on the water. They don't lmow whats wrong with it at this point, but we went through the right procedures several times of extending it . Point: · of impact, we found out fairly shortly what our point of impace was by hearing the discussion in the air on where it was. Status of recovery. We were kept well informed of that because our radio receivers were working fin e . 7, 4 Systems Configuration Cooper Systems configuration,ECS was excellent . No probl em at all. Electrical was good, control was good , aeromedical - - what does a eromedical have to
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