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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.
20 2. l8 GO/NO GO Cooper FCSD REP Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper GO/NO GO: We never got a GO/NO GO beeause we lost our number 1 radio in about 4 minutes s ometime just prior . . . let see we got a . 8 . . . . Wti got a V over VR of . 8 . We got a GO/NO GO of ,.. You did get a , 8? We got a .8 . Yes , that comes much later - that com(!S after the GO/NO GO. Yes, that ' s right , okay, well I don ' t remember ever getting a ... yea , we did, we go·~ MCC GO. Right we got a GO/NO GO , okay, but then immediately after . 8 we never got any·':hing at all from there on until aft er we were ins i~rted and gone to UHF No . 2. I think it must be in the antenna problem, I really do . Well , there 's some problem there because the same thing happened on one of the previous flights and we definitely and completely lost radio and I swi tched over just before we inserted, I switched over to number 2 and then when I call1~d but the IVI's we were back with them then .
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