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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.
Conrad FCSD REP Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper It ' s really a grey area. Right at dusk. Yeah. Right at dusk or right at sunrise. Yeah. Now the first time we went through there we didn ' t even see it . We were working. That wan right after insertion . So, mind you , this is the s1~cond time we got to see it and I can' t emphasize thii, point enough, even though we were on the flight plan and everything else, you got to let the guys learn what ' s going on up there. You haven't been up there befor~ in that darn vehicle you've got to learn it . That ' s :right where we started getting in trouble . That ' s right . That's the exact point t ·:1.at we made . I made it for six months now. For many, many months we've made this over this flight plan, sticking this REP, thi s whole REP thing in that early in the Flight Plan before you really have a chance to get the systems ironed out and checked over and everything and if everything goes exactly right and nothing fails you can run through it time and time and time and time again and you'll make it and you ' ll make it on time.
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