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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.
Conrad Now , you see . Here ' s something that I've never heard from the other guys . Cooper Now there ' s another thing. See, we never had a simulator to show us . Never once did we have any darn thing to show us what out the window should look like . Conrad And when the Platform is alined and you ' re zero- zero- zero , boy, oh boy! That ' s a , just -- It's a very peculiar looking situation and it ' s not what I expected to see at all . Cooper No , it isn' t me either . Conrad And I ' ve never heard either Gus of John or Jim and Ed say "Put a little gouge out" Now I ' ve got a gouge tha t I can draw for you where I 'm sure tha t I can put the Plat form in roll and pitch within a degree in roll and pitch of where it should be out the window on the horizon and it ' s by using the corner of the window and the RCS thrusters on the front : the front RCS yaw thruster in the lower corner of the window and you can put the Platform-- you can put the spacecraft zero- zero and roll and pitch just, well , like that. We didn ' t know that before we went . Cooper This is one of my strongest recommendations if we aren ' t going to have any kind of a visual out the window display at least we ought to get some of the great planners to •
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