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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.
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52 L Cooper Conrad FCSD REP Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad l ight blinks Green/OFF, Green/OFF. Lock on light will blink on and it will come out R and R dot will go from peg to peg. And they'll settle out when it really is warmed up good and you' ve gotten past the transient periods and they ' ll all come back to zero . I think what they ' re looking for are clues to tell you that the set is warming up correc t ly. Ba.ck in the early days of TACAN we had warmup problems. In other words , this would be your firnt indication if something was wrong? Purge Section. One and Two . Well , we got our first load , this 6-4 load. The first load that came up over the DCS system and it came up right over the Cape. Purge Section. One and Two . Got that? Yes , no . Yes . That ' s when we were getting rushed . Let ' s go back to that . Let ' s stop right there. The REP was supposed to go out at 02 : 07 and I purg·ed early and I always had been purging early because I purged it about 1+50 and then I went through the check off list and they were all checked off here. I powered up at 1+50 , I purged the fuel cells and here I checked them off here. . . . prop gauge experiments and the RAD 1 on and the cold
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