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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.
51 .. .,. Cooper Conrad FCSD Rep Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper FCSD Rep Cooper Conrad FCSD REP Cooper Conrad FCSD REP Conrad Yeah . I got a lot of comments later on that on. That thing is so noisy. Oh, you know , I found out what happened, you know. They went back and recomputed and they found out they had four days worth of air in the bottle--Ha Ha! Four days? Yeah. It ran out . But the thing. You can turn it off and it keeps run ning back there . And it goes SMACK- CHOO , SMACK- CHOO , SMACK- CHOO . Yeah, it1 s pretty noisy. And in a real ~uiet cockpit it really sounds loud . This radar test #6 here at O1:3O- Used to turn the radar on. Used to turn it on. Used to turn it to standby. Turn it to standby and warm it up . Used to observe the warmup transients . And all this happened, right? Yes , and it1 s on the voice tape. Like Gordo said, you lmow, what the radar needle did , What it does is it has sort of a cyclic thing when you put it in standby and it 1 s ready to run why it sits there and the lock on
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