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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.
48 FCSD Rep Cooper Conrad - This Perigee adjust. Did you do that i::1 Rate- is that the one you did in Rate Command? Or is that the one you tried in PLATFORM? ~ Did that in PLATFORM and it worked fine on that one. Did that one in PLATFORM and it worked ,~eat, but then on some of these other burns we did I tried it in PLATFORM and it really didn 1 t work well at all. That 's why I rather suspect the P::.ATFORM thing. There's something wrong with it . I think i t was better at some times than others . It was allowing a lot of drift. Okay, in the log book I have it at 50 m:.nutes which is just prior to Carnarvon that I found the Fuel Cell o2 and H Heater Circui t Breaker OFF. Now 2 that--I found it off because they told us to heat the Hydrogen not the Oxygen, but the Hydrogen final ly drilled down to the 220 and they want ed us to use the heater and I turned the heater on and I noticed that I didn 1 t get any ammeter rise and so I looked at the circuit breaker panel and the Circuit Breaker was OFF. So, now in ret rospect seei?hg·the o ON which is on the same circuit 2 breaker burned out, I'm sure that it blE,w when this thing burned out, f
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