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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.
the inertial velocity readout on the ga.ge and that was ·beautiful 25,808 and nominal was S-.lpposed to be 25,807. You can't ask for a better calculation from a computer than that, and a lot of people don ' t have much faith in that thing but, I think that I'll bet that the computed MCC figure isn't more than a foot or two off. I t couldn ' t be because everything was nominal for hours and hours in the past, Day's it went that way where we stayed on the flight plan to the minute, to the second so I know that it was a good computation, and I have the five address readouts that we read , We read out address 72 as 25,808; address 94 which was R dot for gamma was plus 20 feet which is pretty darn small so we must have almos t a zero gamma address 97 which is the forward IVI was plus 2 feet; address 52 was perfect , it was zero. So there was no adjustment needed and if there had been an adjustment needed that would ha:ve come at 3 , 042 seconds on the computer if tbere had been an address . 52 correction and nominal 3,008 seconds so the computer computed the nomi nal thing off only by less than a minute, about a half a
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