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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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53 IR on and the power on the exmitter on and the recorder off and I went through these by the numbers . Com puter, we went to Catch- Up . We had the hundred feet in the window . We were really getting ready to put the REP out and right then and there was when we came over the hill and we were beginning to get to the dark side you know, and the sun was getting low and that ' s when the scanner started going out , Cooper That's when the scanner started dropping out . Conrad And we started getting the scanner light and then now , you got to visualize there ' s part of the problem. We're coming into this "Fuzzy Zone"- horizon and that is the best way to describe it . Cooper Yeah, you can't see anything. Conrad And the spacecraft looks like you're pitched up tremen dously when you're zero- zero- zero to begin with and we both had the impression that the scanner was pitching us up. Well , that may not have been true. It just may have been that that's the way the sky got to looking as we approached the dark side zero- zero- zero . Cooper Actually, you have a transition point there where you cannot see the horizon and it doesn ' t look like either sky or earth or anything. It's a complete blank ,
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