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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.
Conrad Cooper Conrad 3 ,1 Post SECO Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper 23~IE>l!NTtAE 002 . I have al l the computer readouts . 008 right and how many up? 3 up . MANEUVER CONTROLLER worked fine . We went right through .... Wel l, l et ' s go through t hat. The way we had practice SECO, Gordo, got SECO and Gordo unstowed the CONTROLLER and I armed the BUS ARM Swit ch so that we get the MSC- 1 doors OFF. Brought the propulsion power ON. Brought the ATTITUDE CONTROL Elect ric Power ON. Went from RATE COMMAND to DIRECT. Armed the switch and hit the computer. Armed t he sep spacecraft thing and Gordo and I counted the seconds down . I n the meantime , I punched off address 72 so that it was reading and then in 20 seconds we had SEP s/c . ... In 20 seconds I start ed and I called it out and started thrusting and Pete would hit the sep spacecraft ... . Conrad The reason we did that was so that we would have
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