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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.
21 2. 19 Systems Status Cooper System Status everything .. . . Conrad We did have ... Let me describe the delta P \ lights . Shortly after liftoff I got the number 1 fuel cell delta Plight and I reported i t and just about t he time I reported it , then the number 2 fuel cell delta Plight came on . They s tayed on all the way through boost and they were on aft er insertion for ten , fifteen seconds and after that they went right back out again and that) i s it . It didn't effect anything on the fue y e11 operation, the voltages , /thing stayed fine • bein n----tliere was no other way of telling the~ was out of tolerance so I don ' t think it is a problem. We expected it. Cooper I ' m glad that we had them changed to orange rather than red . Conrad Yeah, yeah . Cooper Systems status in addition to that I don ' t think we had any systems that were exactly right , except the radio and the acceleration as we had expected it . We were right on the profile. SECO was ... 2. 20 SECO tn currents , other than !Oa!IIAL
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