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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.
~pl&f~T A~ 39 \ something was wired up wrong or something in i t because it was not working right . Conrad We didn ' t really get a chance to evaluate it too well because we had trouble with it so we stopped using it and by the time we ' d been able to do anything with it we had other problems , fuel problems and so forth . So we never did get back to using it again . Cooper Well, we had other control system problems which were overpowering, platform problem wise , but we did try one burn on the platform and it was a terrible mistake . The darn thi ng did not have the accuracy to really hold it and we got one foot per second in and out of plane there . Conrad Yeah. That was in those coeliptic . Cooper In one of those , that coeliptic burns and we ~ade our other burns then on Rate Command and man, that Rate Command system is just beautiful . It holds that space craft so tight that it can ' t vary. Conrad Yeah . We had a beautiful control system, I thought . When Gordo made any of the burns on the Rate Command or anything l i ke that it really responded -- well. Coope1: Rate Command has tremendous torqueing. Boy, it ' s strong and it ' s instantaneous and you can just stop it right on the money. Really good.
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