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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.
----- 44 • Conrad Cooper Conrad draw up on a piece of paper what the window , what the ;: horizon should look like through the window whic~ d requested several times and never got -- to show ~~~) guy what these various things should look like out the ......__ window;'---...We spent the whole darn eight days trying to ~rt=--'l;fl:e-s-0--~~~43 ~ould look like and I'm not sure we were very clear on it to the day we re- entered, Yeah. Now that 's ridiculous! And it ' s becau:3e of this odd angle that you sit off in there . It completely fouls up everytning, as to getting these various angles : inverted and right side up and 90 degrees angles and all this . /1think we ought t;=-I ' ll tell you i;~ d recommen dation for the guys who are going to do this on GT- 7 with that Hasselblad can take a pound or two of fuel and sit up there and pl:.otograph the camera back inside the spacecraft get the window perspective in this thing. zero- zero- zero , bank right 90 , bank lnft 90 , at ifferent nose pitches above the horizon , <iOt◄r ,eeNirrXt
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