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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.
Really , we sat ther e and had hours worth of discussions in drifting flight when we'd be drifting through , you know , and we ' d say, "Hey, doesn ' t that l ook like they'r:e about 30 degrees nose up and roll right 60 degrees?" and then we ' d try to find those lines and match them and see . . . there ' s an awful lot of learning there . By golly, if we ' d have a Platform Aline Gouge , a visual gouge idea , we'd have picked up this trouble right off the bat. We real ly didn't think the platform. was alined right , but we really didn't have anything to tell us t hat it wasn ' t . Cooper Now looking a t it where we know now after we went to the other scanner finally and we got proper operation knowing what we learned during the flight it appears now like we were--the number one scanner was trying to aline us several degrees down over what it should. Conrad Yeah. FCSD Rep Did you ever go back to Primary after that? Cooper Oh . We checked it a lot of times after that and tried it numerous times and it got worse and worse and worse and it finally was actually driving the spacecraft down to minus 90 degrees and still the scanner, that ' s the funny part of it , the scanner wouldn't go off until you were about 60 degrees below the horizon.
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