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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.
42 L Conrad Now wait til we get the onboard tapes because the tape recorder was working and this all is on the onboard tape ; the conversation that Gordo and I had about that. So we weren ' t really sure it was working right but it f wasn 't that far off that we were going in the dark-- Cooper . Approximately 30 seconds before we had to pitch around or had to yaw around to eject the REP, I had to go back to CAGE and try getting a real rapid P] a tform aline in there , SEF and PULSE and I had the neec.les zeroed and we may not have been so far off but you don ' t know . That isn ' t enough time to really get it alined. In other words . I had about the time we did it and got there we probably had maybe , 30 seconds to Plat::orm aline . That ' s about all we had . Conrad Well , we were just hoping that if it had been pulled off only in pitch why, you know , we ' d get it right--we'd pull the pitch right back in again. Cooper But the scanner was acting up very badly by that time . FCSD Rep How long did you aline the Platform initially? Cooper Initially, we alined the platform for about 15 to 20 minutes and it seemed to aline allright although at that time Pete and I had a discussion right then that we seemed to be alining nose down . ..
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