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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.
40 FCSD Rep Okay, on this platform alinement thing. You went to SEF and caged and SEF and Platform Control Mode, Cooper We pitched down to visual when we went to CAGE and then went to SEF and we went to Platform mode and after fid dling around with it awhile we decided the Platform mode wouldn ' t work so I went to Pulse and then I , just using my needles , Platform needles then , I just pulsed the er rors out until we torqued around and got the ... got it ... on a fine line. Conrad Okay, Now , there ' s no doubt in my mind that the Primary Scanners , there ' s no doubt in my mind now, but we lost on Primary Scanners . We started to aline the primary Scanners and I don ' t think we ever got to platform aline correctly because the primary scanners were not working correctly, Cooper Now the primary scanners, The funny part of it is the Primary Scanner was working in such a rr.anner - working just enough, that it checked right because when we checked out t he alinement of it and the tolerances on it it was working fine , but there was something in it on one of the tests that we did later showed thai it was actually driving, tending to drive the spacecraft down . Conrad Continuing to torque you down to about fifteen degrees nose- down ,
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