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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.
I Conrad I've got down here the GMT of liftoff . I wrote down ... 13 plus 59 plus 59 which they l ater change to 14 plus 00 plus 00 . I have the one A time they got " it up to us okay, which was 10 pl us 11 . Then I have the 2 dash 1 they gave us was 01 pl us 27 plus 16 which they later revised to 01 plus 26 plus 27, I wrote those down. 3.3 Insertion Activities Cooper Okay, l et ' s start on inser tion activities. SAFE t he swi tches we did that just right for our check list . In fact , we are even more convinced than ever that a good, thorough, accurate, checklist is the only thing to have and Conr ad Physically marked them off when they "·e r e done . Cooper We followed it conscientiously. The sequential light t ests, we did it j ust by the teE.ts . Stowage:; . we already had modified our checklistE, ·and we already had written on some of it that we would do these i f we decided to. For instance, the D- rlng safety pin, we did install them at right t i me, and there was no problem on those; they wer e nruch easi•~r under zero- g to get in and out than we had thought and I had no
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