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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.
C Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad @OMFIBEt4t4A.L decided that something wasn't reading right and I realized that I hadn ' t blown the doors on the cold IR and I blew them and at that time the REP was at 25JO feet from us , which is the end of the experiment, but I think it was still reading- - But it was still reading on the, according to the gage . Yeah . I think that cold IR read to a great, great thing. Now , the Radar gage, this is where--here comes the next mystery- the radar gage said the REP waE leaving us at this point in time and that-- Five feet per second? Yeah. I have 3 1/2 feet per second written down. Oh, at that particular point . Oh, wel:. i t - - when we first got our first measurement on it ·;he range rate on my analog dial over there read exactly 5 feet per second that it was going away from us . Yeah. Okay. Right on the money. To go back to the D- 4 in time it was 0.2, it was 02+ 16+ 15 when I blew the doors , which was corre3ponding to 2500 feet and I ran that REP D- 4 recorder until 02+37+12 and--okay, now. That darn REP! Gordo had the needles right on the REP and that REP was going straight out from us at 270 on the ball . It just went , I just 'COr'1 FIDEtf Jal>Att
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